John 16:3
“These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me.”
John 15:20
“Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master ‘ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.”
Matthew 13:21
Yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word,
immediately he falls away.
Psalms 10:2
In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted; Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
Acts 13:50
“But the Jews incited the devout women of prominence and the leading men of the city, and instigated a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.”
Acts 26:9-11
“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them. And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.”