I would probably limp, hoping for a couple of callers and then a likely raise from an aggresive button play, which will allow you to reraise to take down a larger pot and/or giving you far more information with regards to the other players behind you.
It being early if your limp generates too much action before returning to you, you can get away from a potentially difficult situation of being out of position with a difficult hand for the price of a call.
If the expected raise doesn"t happen, then again you"ve kept the pot small allowing you to exit the hand if the flop is dangerous and there is too much action.
By raising immediately you are increasing the cost and making your future decisions more difficult. Suppose there is a raise from the cut-off followed by a caller on the button and the big blind, you are going to have call, but then you have lost control of the hand, and are left hoping for the jack to flop.