Lukas 12:52

52 Denn es werden von nun an fünf in einem Hause entzweit sein; drei werden wider zwei und zwei wider drei entzweit sein:

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 Ich habe aber eine Taufe, womit ich getauft werden muß, und wie bin ich beengt, bis sie vollbracht ist!

51 Denket ihr, daß ich gekommen sei, Frieden auf der Erde zu geben? Nein, sage ich euch, sondern vielmehr Entzweiung.

52 Denn es werden von nun an fünf in einem Hause entzweit sein; drei werden wider zwei und zwei wider drei entzweit sein:

53 Vater wider Sohn und Sohn wider Vater, Mutter wider Tochter und Tochter wider Mutter, Schwiegermutter wider ihre Schwiegertochter und Schwiegertochter wider ihre Schwiegermutter.

54 Er sprach aber auch zu den Volksmengen: Wenn ihr eine Wolke von Westen aufsteigen sehet, so saget ihr alsbald: Ein Regenguß kommt; und es geschieht also.