Explain Matthew 10: 34-35
Please explain:
Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the world. No, I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. I came to set sons against their fathers, daughters against their mothers, daughters in-law against their mothers-in-law. Matthew 10, 34-35.
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---Paul_Adam on 7/23/05
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Isn't this the same thing as Jihad? |
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---edgar on 3/27/08 |
Christ alone is your Savior, and you must love him more then any thing, and also more than you do your own family. And as Peter said, the unsaved family members will object. They may ostracise you, and call you bad names, and even hate you because of the Christ in you. But you just keep letting your light shine, and pray for their salvation also. |
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---Eloy on 11/13/07 |
Because the truth is painful and difficult to hear. Most attack the truth rather than accept it. Those who preach the turth find themselves in battle after battle and no peace. A life of preaching is a hard life and we are all called to do our part. The truth doesn't bring about peace but instead it brings anger and dissention. Jesus' life is a perfect example of that truth. He preached peace and love but faced anger,bitterness,attacks and blasphemies. The truth is a sword. |
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---Matthew on 5/5/07 |
Eph 6:17 Sword is the Word of God. He came as the Word Himself made flesh John 1:14 and dwelt amongst His own. Christ is the Word and The Sword/Word of God. |
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---jana on 5/5/07 |
A sword in this verse means division. Once a person comes to Jesus, then there is division on the part usually of the unbelieving relatives sometimes to the extent of the Christian being disowned. |
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---Helen_5378 on 5/3/07 |
Christ sent that gospel, which gives occasion for the drawing of the sword. The sword is the word. And cruel work this sword made. Look not for peace, but division. I am come to set men at variance. The faith of those that believes, condemns those that believes not. [Count the cost]. |
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---catherine on 5/2/07 |
Jesus was talking about the differences that will ultimately be created when one follows after him.
You've got to look at this in historical context there were many that accepted and followed him and those who would not, sometimes from the same household.
To the religious folks of the day who denied him Jesus was a Sabbath breaker and a blasphemer.
This verse is true even in modern times when someone in a household gets saved and others reject the change. |
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---Pharisee on 5/2/07 |
PART ONE:
It is not about what we, as followers of Jesus might do, it is about what might be done to us. Jesus was simply predicting the possible result of accepting him. Rejection by friends and even family members. Sometimes that rejection could be violent. Matthew 10:21, "And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death." |
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---Bruce5656 on 9/14/06 |
PART TWO:
Imagine you were a Muslim convert today. If your family were of the more radical Muslim type that rejection could be very violent. It would not be your fault and you should not turn against Jesus to make peace with them. You should accept their rejection and move on. |
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---Bruce5656 on 9/14/06 |
PART THREE:
I have seen Catholic individuals become Christians and be ostracized from the community and cut off from their families. This is what Jesus was predicting would happen in some cases. |
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---Bruce5656 on 9/14/06 |
PART FOUR:
The answer you are looking for is right in the context of the passage:
Matthew 10:34"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36.And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. |
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---Bruce5656 on 9/14/06 |
PART FIVE:
37. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."
Instead of a sword, in Luke 14:26 we have Jesus using the imagery of hating family members Luke 14:26, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." |
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---Bruce5656 on 9/14/06 |
PART SIX:
But just like it is not about the sword in Matt 10, it is not about the hating here. What he is saying (in both cases) is that we must love him more than we love even our own families.
Not that we should hate them, but that we should love him more. |
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---Bruce5656 on 9/14/06 |
The sword that Jesus is speaking of here is the sword that will be used on all disciples of Christ. Jesus is telling us that a peaceful life will not be our reward if we follow him. Consider the lives of St. Peter and St. Paul. They were both ultimately beheaded for spreading the gospel. So will we see the sword as disciples of Christ, in one way or another. Matthew 10:39 underlines this. |
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---David on 9/14/06 |
My relations are mostly against me and do not understand my witnessing to others, all except my wife who has seen so many things that she just shakes her head and says my-my-my. All of these are saved, born agaim, wash-in-the-blood christians.---mima 11/9/2005 |
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---mima on 11/9/05 |
My Study Bible says this ---
Jesus does not attack family relationships, but indicates that no earthly tie, however intimate, should detract from aggressive loyalty to Him. This loyalty may even result in certain family members being shunned by others. |
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---DoryLory on 7/27/05 |
Jesus was talking to his 12 disciples told them to preach saying the Kingdom of God is at hand. The disciples were commanded to teach of Jesus and he told them he is sending them as sheeps into the wolves. Jesus was telling them that whosoever denys him then Jesus would deny them unto God and that these people will be against them for preaching and that there will be so much hatred in those cities that the people will turn against one another. I believe Jesus was telling the disciples what to expect. |
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---Rebecca_D on 7/27/05 |
I wish someone comes up with a straight answer as to the meaning of the above verse which has always confused me. |
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---Paul_Adam on 7/26/05 |
If there are true believers, make believers, and non-believers, then do they all go to heaven? If not, who else would they be but those around us all. It's not in the genetics, it's in the Jesus's Revelation. People who follow Jesus because they are His children will be berated by those who are not. |
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---mike_fl on 7/25/05 |
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