17 and ye shall be hated by all because of my name --
but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;
`Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake --
`Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake --
and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.
and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end -- he shall be saved.
the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
for I will shew him how many things it behoveth him for My name to suffer.'
for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;
wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;
because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;
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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,