Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: