17 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.
But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.
Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake."
For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
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Commentary on Luke 21 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 21
In this chapter we have,
Luk 21:1-4
This short passage of story we had before in Mark. It is thus recorded twice, to teach us,
Luk 21:5-19
See here,
Luk 21:20-28
Having given them an idea of the times for about thirty-eight years next ensuing, he here comes to show them what all those things would issue in at last, namely, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the utter dispersion of the Jewish nation, which would be a little day of judgment, a type and figure of Christ's second coming, which was not so fully spoken of here as in the parallel place (Mt. 24), yet glanced at; for the destruction of Jerusalem would be as it were the destruction of the world to those whose hearts were bound up in it.
Luk 21:29-38
Here, in the close of this discourse,