Bible Cross References
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Luke 11:49-51
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For this reason the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and messengers; they will kill some of them and persecute others.'
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So the people of this time will be punished for the murder of all the prophets killed since the creation of the world,
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from the murder of Abel to the murder of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the Holy Place. Yes, I tell you, the people of this time will be punished for them all!
Matthew 10:16-25
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"Listen! I am sending you out just like sheep to a pack of wolves. You must be as cautious as snakes and as gentle as doves.
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Watch out, for there will be those who will arrest you and take you to court, and they will whip you in the synagogues.
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For my sake you will be brought to trial before rulers and kings, to tell the Good News to them and to the Gentiles.
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When they bring you to trial, do not worry about what you are going to say or how you will say it; when the time comes, you will be given what you will say.
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For the words you will speak will not be yours; they will come from the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
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"People will hand over their own brothers to be put to death, and fathers will do the same to their children; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.
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Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.
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When they persecute you in one town, run away to another one. I assure you that you will not finish your work in all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
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"No pupil is greater than his teacher; no slave is greater than his master.
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So a pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and a slave like his master. If the head of the family is called Beelzebul, the members of the family will be called even worse names!
Matthew 22:6
while others grabbed the servants, beat them, and killed them.
Matthew 23:34-36
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And so I tell you that I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers; you will kill some of them, crucify others, and whip others in the synagogues and chase them from town to town.
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As a result, the punishment for the murder of all innocent people will fall on you, from the murder of innocent Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
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I tell you indeed: the punishment for all these murders will fall on the people of this day!
Matthew 24:9
"Then you will be arrested and handed over to be punished and be put to death. Everyone will hate you because of me.
Matthew 24:10
Many will give up their faith at that time; they will betray one another and hate one another.
Mark 13:9-13
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"You yourselves must watch out. You will be arrested and taken to court. You will be beaten in the synagogues; you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake to tell them the Good News.
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But before the end comes, the gospel must be preached to all peoples.
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And when you are arrested and taken to court, do not worry ahead of time about what you are going to say; when the time comes, say whatever is then given to you. For the words you speak will not be yours; they will come from the Holy Spirit.
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Men will hand over their own brothers to be put to death, and fathers will do the same to their children. Children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.
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Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.
John 15:20
Remember what I told you: 'Slaves are not greater than their master.' If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.
John 16:2
You will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when those who kill you will think that by doing this they are serving God.
John 16:3
People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.
Acts 4:3-7
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So they arrested them and put them in jail until the next day, since it was already late.
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But many who heard the message believed; and the number grew to about five thousand.
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The next day the Jewish leaders, the elders, and the teachers of the Law gathered in Jerusalem.
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They met with the High Priest Annas and with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and the others who belonged to the High Priest's family.
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They made the apostles stand before them and asked them, "How did you do this? What power do you have or whose name did you use?"
Acts 5:17-19
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Then the High Priest and all his companions, members of the local party of the Sadducees, became extremely jealous of the apostles; so they decided to take action.
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They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
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But that night an angel of the Lord opened the prison gates, led the apostles out, and said to them,
Acts 5:40-19
Acts 6:12-15
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In this way they stirred up the people, the elders, and the teachers of the Law. They seized Stephen and took him before the Council.
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Then they brought in some men to tell lies about him. "This man," they said, "is always talking against our sacred Temple and the Law of Moses.
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We heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will tear down the Temple and change all the customs which have come down to us from Moses!"
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All those sitting in the Council fixed their eyes on Stephen and saw that his face looked like the face of an angel.
Acts 7:57-60
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With a loud cry the Council members covered their ears with their hands. Then they all rushed at him at once,
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threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses left their cloaks in the care of a young man named Saul.
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They kept on stoning Stephen as he called out to the Lord, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"
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He knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, "Lord! Do not remember this sin against them!" He said this and died.
Acts 8:3
But Saul tried to destroy the church; going from house to house, he dragged out the believers, both men and women, and threw them into jail.
Acts 9:4
He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul! Why do you persecute me?"
Acts 12:1-4
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About this time King Herod began to persecute some members of the church.
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He had James, the brother of John, put to death by the sword.
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When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he went ahead and had Peter arrested. (This happened during the time of the Festival of Unleavened Bread.)
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After his arrest Peter was put in jail, where he was handed over to be guarded by four groups of four soldiers each. Herod planned to put him on trial in public after Passover.
Acts 16:22-26
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And the crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas. Then the officials tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be whipped.
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After a severe beating, they were thrown into jail, and the jailer was ordered to lock them up tight.
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Upon receiving this order, the jailer threw them into the inner cell and fastened their feet between heavy blocks of wood.
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About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
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Suddenly there was a violent earthquake, which shook the prison to its foundations. At once all the doors opened, and the chains fell off all the prisoners.
Acts 21:30
Confusion spread through the whole city, and the people all ran together, grabbed Paul, and dragged him out of the Temple. At once the Temple doors were closed.
Acts 21:31
The mob was trying to kill Paul, when a report was sent up to the commander of the Roman troops that all of Jerusalem was rioting.
Acts 22:30
The commander wanted to find out for sure what the Jews were accusing Paul of; so the next day he had Paul's chains taken off and ordered the chief priests and the whole Council to meet. Then he took Paul and made him stand before them.
Acts 24:1-9
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Five days later the High Priest Ananias went to Caesarea with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus. They appeared before Governor Felix and made their charges against Paul.
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Then Paul was called in, and Tertullus began to make his accusation, as follows: "Your Excellency! Your wise leadership has brought us a long period of peace, and many necessary reforms are being made for the good of our country.
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We welcome this everywhere and at all times, and we are deeply grateful to you.
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I do not want to take up too much of your time, however, so I beg you to be kind and listen to our brief account.
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We found this man to be a dangerous nuisance; he starts riots among Jews all over the world and is a leader of the party of the Nazarenes.
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He also tried to defile the Temple, and we arrested him.
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If you question this man, you yourself will be able to learn from him all the things that we are accusing him of."
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The Jews joined in the accusation and said that all this was true.
Acts 25:1
Three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
Acts 25:2
where the chief priests and the Jewish leaders brought their charges against Paul. They begged Festus
Acts 25:11
If I have broken the law and done something for which I deserve the death penalty, I do not ask to escape it. But if there is no truth in the charges they bring against me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to the Emperor."
Acts 25:12
Then Festus, after conferring with his advisers, answered, "You have appealed to the Emperor, so to the Emperor you will go."
Acts 25:22-25
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Agrippa said to Festus, "I would like to hear this man myself." "You will hear him tomorrow," Festus answered.
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The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and ceremony and entered the audience hall with the military chiefs and the leading men of the city. Festus gave the order, and Paul was brought in.
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Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are here with us: You see this man against whom all the Jewish people, both here and in Jerusalem, have brought complaints to me. They scream that he should not live any longer.
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But I could not find that he had done anything for which he deserved the death sentence. And since he himself made an appeal to the Emperor, I have decided to send him.
Acts 26:2-11
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"King Agrippa! I consider myself fortunate that today I am to defend myself before you from all the things these Jews accuse me of,
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particularly since you know so well all the Jewish customs and disputes. I ask you, then, to listen to me with patience.
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"All the Jews know how I have lived ever since I was young. They know how I have spent my whole life, at first in my own country and then in Jerusalem.
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They have always known, if they are willing to testify, that from the very first I have lived as a member of the strictest party of our religion, the Pharisees.
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And now I stand here to be tried because of the hope I have in the promise that God made to our ancestors---
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the very thing that the twelve tribes of our people hope to receive, as they worship God day and night. And it is because of this hope, Your Majesty, that I am being accused by these Jews!
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Why do you who are here find it impossible to believe that God raises the dead?
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"I myself thought that I should do everything I could against the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.
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That is what I did in Jerusalem. I received authority from the chief priests and put many of God's people in prison; and when they were sentenced to death, I also voted against them.
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Many times I had them punished in the synagogues and tried to make them deny their faith. I was so furious with them that I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!
1 Thessalonians 2:16
They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!
1 Peter 4:12-14
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My dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful test you are suffering, as though something unusual were happening to you.
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Rather be glad that you are sharing Christ's sufferings, so that you may be full of joy when his glory is revealed.
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Happy are you if you are insulted because you are Christ's followers; this means that the glorious Spirit, the Spirit of God, is resting on you.
Revelation 2:10
Don't be afraid of anything you are about to suffer. Listen! The Devil will put you to the test by having some of you thrown into prison, and your troubles will last ten days. Be faithful to me, even if it means death, and I will give you life as your prize of victory.
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1 Peter 2:13
For the sake of the Lord submit yourselves to every human authority: to the Emperor, who is the supreme authority,