Matteo 10:35

35 Perciocchè io son venuto a mettere in discordia il figliuolo contro al padre, e la figliuola contro alla madre, e la nuora contro alla suocera.

Matteo 10:35 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 10:35

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".

Matteo 10:35 In-Context

33 Ma chiunque mi avrà rinnegato davanti agli uomini, io altresì lo rinnegherò davanti al Padre mio che è ne’ cieli.

34 Non pensate ch’io sia venuto a metter pace in terra; io non son venuto a mettervi la pace, anzi la spada.

35 Perciocchè io son venuto a mettere in discordia il figliuolo contro al padre, e la figliuola contro alla madre, e la nuora contro alla suocera.

36 E i nemici dell’uomo saranno i suoi famigliari stessi.

37 Chi ama padre o madre più di me non è degno di me; e chi ama figliuolo o figliuola più di me non è degno di me.