Luke 6:23
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.
What it says
Jesus tells them to rejoice because their reward in heaven is great, and the prophets were treated the same way.
What it is doing
Their response is tied to heavenly reward and prophetic precedent.
In context
20Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: 21Blessed are you who hunger now, 22Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man. 23Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.