Lukas 6:27

6:27 “But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies, ¹  do good to those who hate you,

Lukas 23:12

23:12 That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other, ²  for prior to this they had been enemies. ³ 

¹ sn Love your enemies is the first of four short exhortations that call for an unusual response to those who are persecuting disciples. Disciples are to relate to hostility in a completely unprecedented manner.

² sn Herod and Pilate became friends with each other. It may be that Pilate’s change of heart was related to the death of his superior, Sejanus, who had a reputation for being anti-Jewish. To please his superior, Pilate may have ruled the Jews with insensitivity. Concerning Sejanus, see Philo, Embassy 24 (160-61) and Flaccus 1 (1).

³ tn Grk “at enmity with each other.”