<p>21:17<i> And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake-</i>&nbsp;&nbsp; This hating by all men may imply a world-wide persecution. Matthew: &quot;hated by all nations&quot;.&nbsp; But the Gospel will then be preached to &ldquo;all nations&rdquo; (Mk. 13:10). It seems that the persecution will result in preaching, perhaps through highly publicized legal cases. If the Gospel is taken to all nations, then this will not need to happen. &quot;For my Name&rsquo;s sake&quot; is a&nbsp;phrase which rarely occurs outside of the Olivet prophecy; one other time is in the upper room discourse, which is John&rsquo;s parallel with the Olivet prophecy as recorded in the synoptic Gospels. Here we read again that the believers will be &ldquo;hated&hellip; for My Name&rsquo;s sake&rdquo; (Jn. 15:18,21). But in John 15 the Lord seems to be angling His words not just to the twelve, but to all in Him; for His reasoning is that the world&rsquo;s attitude to Him will be their attitude to us, and all in Him will suffer as He did. Again we can conclude that John, the latest of the Gospels, was re-adjusting the emphasis of the Olivet prophecy, knowing that it had been rescheduled and would not fully come true in an early coming of Christ in the first century.</p>