What Does Luke 21:17 Mean?
And you will be hated by all humankind for my nature's sake.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.THE KEY
The name that provokes hatred is not a label but the nature of Jesus made visible.
THE MEANING
Your association with Jesus places you under the hatred of people because of the nature his name carries. The hostility reaches beyond a word to the character that name represents.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that the nature represented by Jesus’ name must be acceptable to everyone to be true; the verse says hatred can gather around it.
THE ROOT
ὄνομα
onoma
GROWS FROM
ὄνομα
onoma
Name; the person or character represented by a name.
“nature's sake” in this verse is onoma. Here, “my name” carries the nature of Jesus, not merely a spoken label. The hatred is directed at what that name represents.
ALSO GROWS
onomazō: To name or call by name.
ὀνομάζω
Naming makes the person or nature being named known.
onomastos: Named, renowned.
ὀνομαστός
A name can stand for the character or reputation by which someone is known.
THE PATTERN
When a life bears the nature of God’s name, opposition can gather around that nature.
Hear and respond to the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word. Your brothers who hate you, who drive you out for the sake of my nature, have said, "Let the LORD be given weight." But he will be seen to your joy, and they will be ashamed.If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.If you are reviled in the nature of the Anointed One, flourishing are you, for the breath of weight and of God rests upon you. On their side he is spoken against, but on your side he is given weight.THE THREAD
But all these things they will do to you for my nature's sake, because they do not know him who sent me.John repeats the same phrase, “for my name’s sake,” using the same Greek word for name. It opens Luke’s line further: the hostility is tied to the nature Jesus represents, while the persecutors do not know the one who sent him.
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