Matthew 24:9

Disciples will be handed over to persecution, killed, and hated by all nations for Christ's name. It forewarns believers of suffering for their allegiance to Jesus.

Cross-references · 22

• 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.
• John 15:19–20If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
• Luke 21:16–17You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
• 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.
• Matt 10:17–22But beware of men; for they will hand you over to their councils and flog you in their synagogues.
• Luke 21:12But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.
• Mark 13:9–13So be on your guard. You will be delivered over to the councils and beaten in the synagogues. On My account you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.
• 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.
• Rev 7:14“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
• 1 Pet 4:16But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear that name.
• Acts 5:40–41At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.
• 1 Th 2:14–16For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,
• Acts 4:2–3greatly disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
• Acts 21:31–32While they were trying to kill him, the commander of the Roman regiment received a report that all Jerusalem was in turmoil.
• Acts 7:59While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
• Luke 11:49Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’
• Matt 23:34Because 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.
• 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.
• Acts 28:22But we consider your views worth hearing, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect.”
• Acts 22:19–22‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.
• Matt 22:6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
• Acts 12:1–5About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church.

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