TSK · Mark 13:9

Beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues.

Persecution of Disciples“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

If a place will not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

Wherever they do not receive you, as you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

Remember what I told you,‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

The Arrest and Trial of Peter and John While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

Then they secretly instigated some men to say,“We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

The Conversion of Saul Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest

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

When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said,“These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews

While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

Paul looked directly at the council and said,“Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day.”

Paul Appeals to Caesar Now three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

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.

Encouragement in Persecution This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.

Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you thrown into prison so you may be tested, and you will experience suffering for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself.

Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.