d.   Matt 23:34.  Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:   John 15:18-20,24.  If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. ...If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.   John 11:47,53.  Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. ...Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.   Acts 4:1-3.  And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.   Acts 5:17.  Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,