Rejoice ye in that day
 When they should be hated, discarded, reproached, and anathematized: and leap for joy; as if the greatest honour and happiness imaginable had been conferred on them; and as persons do, when in the greatest rapture: 
 for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for in the like manner did
 their fathers unto the prophets;
 (See Gill on Matthew 5:12).