If they hated Him, they will hate us.
Look at the way the Pharisees treated Jesus and you’ll see some pretty amazing parallels to how modern day religionists treat His followers.
Indeed. There are also interesting parallels between Israel at the time of Christ and Rome today. Everytime I read that passage toward the end of Romans 9 about Israel I think of Rome.
30 What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. 32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33 as it is written,
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”