Then shall they deliver ... — The adverb, here and in Matthew 24:10, points to synchronism rather than sequence in its connection with Matthew 24:8.
To be afflicted. — Literally, unto affliction. The words repeat in substance the predictions of Matthew 10:22. (See Notes there.) Here we have “hated of all the nations,” i.e., heathen nations, instead of the wider “hated of all men.” So, when Paul reached Rome, the “sect” of the Christians was “everywhere spoken against” (Acts 28:22) “as evildoers” (1 Peter 2:12). So, a little later on, Tacitus describes them as “hated for their crimes” (Ann. xv. 44).