Believers will be persecuted just as Jesus was persecuted

²³When they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them. ²⁴When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind and said, “Master of all, you who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,

²⁵who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?

²⁶The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together,against the Lord and against his Christ.’

²⁷“For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, ²⁸to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen. ²⁹And now, Lord, pay attention to their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage, ³⁰while you extend your hand to heal, and to bring about miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” ³¹When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God courageously.