TSK · Luke 6:22

They say,‘Keep to yourself! Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’ These people are like smoke in my nostrils, like a fire that keeps burning all day long.

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved!

Persecution of Disciples“You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them.

You will be hated by everyone because of my name.

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”

For we have found this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Are they servants of Christ?(I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

For this finds God’s favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.