1 Peter 2:21-23

(21) To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. (22) "He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth." (23) When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. 

Jesus Christ was the Son of GOD! He could have called down lightning bolts to zap His enemies. One snap of His fingers and he could have commanded an earthquake to swallow up the entire Roman empire but He didn't. Jesus gave us the perfect example of how we should treat those who persecute us.

On a physical level we must understand that in order for the Christ to absorb our sins, He had to become flesh and thus by doing so, He suffered all the pain and anguish that any other human would. If He stubbed His toe, it hurt just it would for any man. So, when he sufferd the torture and indignation at the hands of the Jews and Romans, He felt it. He didn't ask GOD to make Him numb to the pain and more amazingly, He didn't ask for revenge or did He curse those who treated Him so horrendously. As they whipped Him and pounded stakes into His wrists and ankles, He didn't condemn them. Instead, even under such excruciating pain that He was subjected to for no reason, He asked GOD, His FATHER to forgive them for they knew not what they did. Then He committed His spirit to GOD. We will never be made to suffer as Christ did, so we have even less reason to condemn those who persecute us. Christ gives us the perfect example to live our lives by, committing our spirits to our FATHER in heaven.