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Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name`s sake.
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A Historically Fulfilled Prophecy
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that Jesus's warning was specifically and historically fulfilled in the early church. They point to the book of Acts, which records the apostles being imprisoned, beaten, brought before rulers, and even killed (like Stephen and James) precisely as Jesus foretold. This wasn't a vague prediction but a concrete reality for the first generation of Christians.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
To be afflicted. This means by persecution, imprisonment, scourging, and similar trials. “They shall deliver you up to councils” …
Ye shall be hated (εσεσθε μισουμενο). Periphrastic future passive to emphasize the continuous process of the linear action. For tr…
19th Century
Anglican
Then shall they deliver... — The adverb, here and in Matthew 24:10, points to synchronism rather than sequence in its connection w…
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Baptist
Our Lord not only foretold the general trial that would come upon the Jews and upon the world, but also the special persecution which would be the …
During the “birth pains” (v.8) Jesus’ disciples will be persecuted and killed. “You” quite clearly extends beyond the immediate disciples and inclu…
16th Century
Protestant
Then will they deliver you up to be afflicted. Christ now foretells to the disciples another kind of temptation by which, in addition to o…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted Our Lord proceeds to acquaint his disciples, what should befall them …
The disciples had asked concerning the times, "When should these things be?" Christ gave them no answer to that; but they had also asked, "What sha…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the multiple provocations of the Jews were recounted; now, the preparation for Christ’s departure through the instruction of His disciples is…
