What Christ is saying to the faithful [in Matthew 10:24-39] is, I am now already sharing with you the same stigma you are presently suffering. That is sufficient for your encouragement. For why do you now grieve? Are you troubled when someone is calling you a deceiver or a liar? So what? Wait a little while. In time you will be seen as benefactors of the world and champions of faith. So do not let what is now being said demoralize you. Rather, let the hope of the good things to come raise you up. For the true story of your testimony cannot be suppressed forever.

—John Chrysostom, The Gospel of Matthew, Homily 34.1