Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
But I 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;
-- Matthew 5:43f.
Hate thine enemy was said at Qumran:
Justice benefits friends and harms enemies.
-- Plato, Republic 1.334b.
Evidently the Greek leaven had leavened the Jewish lump, and Jesus was nothing if not a reactionary Jew opposing such degeneracy.
Jesus' appeal to good works in response to evil kept to something hardly novel within Judaism, even if the eschatological moment was:
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
-- Proverbs 25:21f.
What was truly novel was Paul's later application of this beyond the boundaries of Judaism:
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
-- Romans 12:20.
