Luke 21:17 - Exposition

And ye shall be hated of all men for my Name's sake . All the records of early Christianity unite in bearing witness to the universal hatred with which the new sect were regarded by pagans as well as Jews. The words of the Roman Jews reported in Acts 28:22 well sum this up, "As concerning this sect, we know that everywhere it is spoken against" (see, too, Acts 24:5 and 1 Peter 2:12 ). The Roman writers Tacitus, Pliny, and Suctonius, bear the same testimony.