Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.
For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: