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Matthew 10:34-36
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Matthew 10:34-36
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Not Peace, but a Sword
34 “Do not think that I have come to bring[a] peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword![b] 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, 36 and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.[c]
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- Matthew 10:34 tn Grk “cast.” For βάλλω (ballō) in the sense of bringing about (or causing) a state or condition, see L&N 13.14; BDAG 163-64 s.v. 4.
- Matthew 10:34 sn For rhetorical reasons, Jesus’ statement is deliberately paradoxical (seeming to state the opposite of Matt 10:13 where the messengers are to bring peace). The conflict implied by the sword is not primarily eschatological in this context, however, but immediate, and concerns the division and discord even among family members that a person’s allegiance to Jesus would bring (vv. 35-39).
- Matthew 10:36 tn Matt 10:35-36 are an allusion to Mic 7:6.
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