Mark 13:9

Jesus warns the disciples they will be arrested, beaten, and tried before rulers for his sake. Their suffering becomes a testimony to Christ.

Cross-references · 33

• Matt 10:17–18But beware of men; for they will hand you over to their councils and flog you in their synagogues.
• John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
• Mark 13:5Jesus began by telling them, “See to it that no one deceives you.
• 1 Cor 4:9–13For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
• Phil 1:29For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him,
• Rev 2:13I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits. Yet you have held fast to My name and have not denied your faith in Me, even in the day when My faithful witness Antipas was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
• Rev 1:9I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance that are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and my testimony about Jesus.
• 2 Th 1:5All this is clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment. And so you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.
• Acts 7:54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
• Acts 23:1–2Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”
• Acts 12:1–3About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church.
• 2 Cor 11:23–27Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
• Acts 9:13–14But Ananias answered, “Lord, many people have told me about this man and all the harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.
• John 15:20Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.
• Acts 6:11–15Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
• Mark 1:44“See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
• Acts 9:1–2Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest
• Acts 25:1–26Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
• Matt 23:34–37Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.
• Mark 6:11If anyone will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that place, as a testimony against them.”
• Acts 22:19–20‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.
• Rev 6:9–11And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.
• Luke 9:5If anyone does not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that town, as a testimony against them.”
• Acts 21:11Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.’”
• Acts 21:31–40While they were trying to kill him, the commander of the Roman regiment received a report that all Jerusalem was in turmoil.
• Acts 4:1–21While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,
• Acts 16:20–24They brought them to the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews and are throwing our city into turmoil
• Luke 21:16–18You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
• Matt 24:9–10Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
• Rev 2:10Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• Acts 9:16I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”
• Acts 5:17–40Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out
• Acts 24:1–9Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.

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