Matthäus 10:35

Lutherbibel

Denn ich bin gekommen, den Menschen zu erregen gegen seinen Vater und die Tochter gegen ihre Mutter und die Schwiegertochter gegen ihre Schwiegermutter.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Denn ich bin gekommen, den Menschen zu entzweien mit seinem Vater, und die Tochter mit ihrer Mutter, und die Schwiegertochter mit ihrer Schwiegermutter;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 10:21, Matthew 24:10, Micah 7:5, Mark 13:12, Luke 21:16

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:1 - between 1 Kings 2:20 - Ask on Psalms 69:8 - and an alien Song of Solomon 1:6 - my mother's Jeremiah 9:4 - ye heed Micah 7:6 - son John 7:43 - General John 10:19 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I am come to set a man at variance against,.... Or "to divide a man from his father". Here our Lord opens and explains what he means by the sword, intestine divisions, domestic broils, family differences, as well as such as appear in towns, cities, and kingdoms, which are exemplified by other instances following;

and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: the case is this, a father believing in Christ, embracing his Gospel, and submitting to his institutions, is contradicted, opposed, and persecuted by his own son, and a mother by her own daughter; in both which relations, natural affection knit them together; and the mother-in-law by her daughter-in-law, who before lived together in the most peaceable, kind, and tender manner: which must be imputed, not to Christ, and the doctrines of Christ, and the natural tendency of them, embraced by the father, the mother, and mother-in-law; but to the natural enmity of the son, the daughter, and the daughter-in-law, to everything divine, spiritual, and evangelical, or "vice versa".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Think not that I am come ... - This is taken from Micah 7:6. Christ did not here mean to say that the object of his coming was to produce discord and contention, for he was the Prince of Peace, Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 11:6; Luke 2:14; but he means to say that such would be one of the effects of his coming. One part of a family that was opposed to Him would set themselves against those who believed in him. The wickedness of men, and not the religion of the gospel, is the cause of this hostility. It is unnecessary to say that no prophecy has been more strikingly fulfilled; and it will continue to be fulfilled until all unite in obeying his commandments. Then his religion will produce universal peace. Compare the notes at Matthew 10:21.

But a sword - The sword is an instrument of death, and to send a sword is the same as to produce hostility and war.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 35. I am come to set a man at variance — The spirit of Christ can have no union with the spirit of the world. Even a father, while unconverted, will oppose a godly child. Thus the spirit that is in those who sin against God is opposed to that spirit which is in the followers of the Most High. It is the spirits then that are in opposition, and not the persons.