Matteo 10:35

35 Perché son venuto a dividere il figlio da suo padre, e la figlia da sua madre, e la nuora dalla 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 rinnegherà davanti agli uomini, anch’io rinnegherò lui davanti al Padre mio che è nei cieli.

34 Non pensate ch’io sia venuto a metter pace sulla terra; non son venuto a metter pace, ma spada.

35 Perché son venuto a dividere il figlio da suo padre, e la figlia da sua madre, e la nuora dalla suocera;

36 e i nemici dell’uomo saranno quelli stessi di casa sua.

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;