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.

What reply did the Lord immediately make?
After bringing Him to the place of crucifixion, what drink was offered Christ to stupefy Him?
For whom did Christ suffer all these things?
22. What prophetic period begins at the time when the continual mediation of Christ was taken away by the Papacy?
At Corinth what did he do on the Sabbath days?
What did Charlemagne's Sunday law of 800 require?
What promise was made to Abraham concerning the land?

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