Quotes about Persecution

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Because His people were in union with Him, to persecute them was to persecute Him. This truth is no different today. You are in union with Christ, just as surely as the disciples were in the time of the book of Acts.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.

But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.

These are the last words of Iuliu Maniu, a Christian and the former Prime Minister of Romania, who died in prison: "If the Communists are overthrown in our country, it will be the most holy duty of every Christian to go into the streets and at the risk of his own life defend the Communists from the righteous fury of the multitudes whom they have tyrannized.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.

A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.