John 11:57

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ’ ”

But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’ ”

Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered, “This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”

Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.

“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

Their eyes were opened and they recognized him, then he vanished out of their sight.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”

Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.

When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,