Why did Christ tell us to love our enemies?

Answer

"But 1 say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and
pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father
which is in heaven: for He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and
on the unjust." Matt. 5: 44, 45.

With what comparison did He illustrate the subject?
In what literal language is this persecution of the people of God further described?
21. To what extent is the apostasy, or fall, of modern Babylon, the mother, and of her daughters, to be carried?
For what did Christ reprove the Pharisees and Sadducees?
With what do these trumpets deal?
15. Then when miracles are performed by spirits purporting to be those of our dead friends, to what shall we attribute them?
What did Christ say concerning secret prayer?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle