'Violence' in the Bible
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and men of violence take it by force.
And soldiers also asked him, saying, And we, what must we do? And he said unto them, Extort from no man by violence, neither accuse any one wrongfully; and be content with your wages.
Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, but without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
And when he came upon the stairs, so it was that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the crowd;
But the chief captain Lysias came, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
But lighting upon a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the foreship struck and remained unmoveable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves .