Luke 21:16 - Exposition

And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends . His disciples must be prepared to pay, as the price of their friendship with him, the sacrifice of all home and domestic life and peace. How often in the records of the early Christians are these terrible sufferings added to public persecution! Literally, his own would have very often to give up mother, father, friends, for his sake . And some of you shall they cause to be put to death . This was literally true in the case of several of those then listening to him.