6 Bible Verses about Persecution Of Christ

and they rose up and drove Him out of town and took Him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, to hurl Him down the cliff.

Then Herod and his bodyguard treated Him with contempt and made sport of Him and put a gorgeous robe on Him and sent Him back to Pilate.

This is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He persisted in doing such things on the Sabbath.

After this, Jesus went on moving about in Galilee; He would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

I know that you are Abraham's descendants, and yet you are trying to kill me, because there is no room in you for my teaching.

Once more they were trying to arrest Him, but He escaped from their hands.