'Persecute' in the Bible

Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake --

rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

'And whenever they may persecute you in this city, flee to the other, for verily I say to you, ye may not have completed the cities of Israel till the Son of Man may come.