Matthew 10:34-37

Not Peace, but a Sword

10:34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword. 10:35 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, 10:36 and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.

10:37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.


tn Grk “cast.” For βάλλω (ballw) in the sense of causing a state or condition, see L&N 13.14.

tn Matt 10:35-36 are an allusion to Mic 7:6.