Albert Barnes Commentary Matthew 24:10

"And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another." — Matthew 24:10 (ASV)

Shall many be offended. See Barnes on Matthew 5:29.

Many will stumble, fall, and apostatize from a profession of religion. Many who professed to love me will then show that they had no real attachment to me; and in those trying times will show that they knew nothing of genuine Christian love. See 1 John 2:19.

Shall betray one another. Those who thus apostatize from professed attachment to me will betray others who really love me. This they would do to secure their own safety, by revealing the names, habitations, or places of concealment of others.

Shall hate one another. Not that real Christians would do this, but those who had professed to be such would then show that they were not, and would hate one another. Luke adds that they would be betrayed by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends. They would violate the most tender ties to surrender Christians to punishment. So great would be their hatred of Christianity, that it would overcome all the natural endearments of kindred and home. This, in the persecutions of Christians, has often been done; and nothing shows more fully the deep and deadly hatred of the human heart to the gospel.