Lukas 12:52

52 Denn von nun an werden fünf in einem Hause uneins sein, drei wider zwei, und zwei wider drei.

Lukas 12:52 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 12:52

For from henceforth there shall be five in one house,
&c.] Which are the five following, mentioned in the next verse; the father and the son, the mother and the daughter, and her daughter-in-law, or son's wife; for the mother and mother-in-law are one and the same person, only standing in different relations; as a mother to her own daughter, and a mother-in-law to her son's wife, or to her husband's daughter by his first wife; though the former best answers to the word used: now from the time of Christ's saying these words, or quickly after this, immediately upon his baptism of sufferings, or soon after his death, when the Gospel should be preached more publicly and extensively, this should be the effect of it; that supposing a family consisting of the above number, they should be

divided
from one another, in the following manner:

three against two, and two against three;
three that did not believe in Christ, against two that did believe in him; or two that did not believe, against three that did; or three that did, against two that did not; or two that did, against three that did not. The Ethiopic version reads, "two shall be separated from three, and one shall be separated from two".

Lukas 12:52 In-Context

50 Aber ich muß mich zuvor taufen lassen mit einer Taufe; wie ist mir so bange, bis sie vollendet werde!

51 Meinet ihr, daß ich hergekommen bin, Frieden zu bringen auf Erden? Ich sage: Nein, sondern Zwietracht.

52 Denn von nun an werden fünf in einem Hause uneins sein, drei wider zwei, und zwei wider drei.

53 Es wird sein der Vater wider den Sohn, und der Sohn wider den Vater; die Mutter wider die Tochter, und die Tochter wider die Mutter; die Schwiegermutter wider die Schwiegertochter, und die Schwiegertochter wider die Schwiegermutter.

54 Er sprach aber zu dem Volk: Wenn ihr eine Wolke sehet aufgehen am Abend, so sprecht ihr alsbald: Es kommt ein Regen, und es geschieht also.