Context 5:12 Rejoice and be glad because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.
Matthew 5:46
Context 5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors1 do the same, don’t they?
[5:46]1sn The tax collectors would bid to collect taxes for the Roman government and then add a surcharge, which they kept. Since tax collectors worked for Rome, they were viewed as traitors to their own people and were not well liked.
