9 Bible Verses about Martyrdom, Methods Of

so he sent and had John beheaded in prison.

But when Herod heard, he said, "This is John, whom I beheaded; he has been raised from the dead!"

And Herod said, "John I have beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?" So he sought to see him.

Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was given. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony to Jesus and because of the word of God, and who had not worshipped the beast or his image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

If I give all I have to the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

Then they cast him out of the city and began to stone him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

He had James the brother of John put to death with the sword.

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection.