6 Bible Verses about Persecution Of Christ

They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

I know that you are Abraham's descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.