'Persecuting' in the Bible

I said, "Lord, you know how I suffer. Take thought of me and care for me. Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me. Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me. Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake.

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

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

So he said, "Who are you, Lord?" He replied, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting!

Then I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'

I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.'

When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself by kicking against the goads.'

So I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' And the Lord replied, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.