Lukas 12:52

52 Want van nu aan zullen er vijf in een huis verdeeld zijn, drie tegen twee, en twee tegen drie.

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 Maar Ik moet met een doop gedoopt worden; en hoe worde Ik geperst, totdat het volbracht zij!

51 Meent gij, dat Ik gekomen ben, om vrede te geven op de aarde? Neen, zeg Ik u, maar veeleer verdeeldheid.

52 Want van nu aan zullen er vijf in een huis verdeeld zijn, drie tegen twee, en twee tegen drie.

53 De vader zal tegen den zoon verdeeld zijn, en de zoon tegen den vader; de moeder tegen de dochter; en de dochter tegen de moeder; de schoonmoeder tegen haar schoondochter, en de schoondochter tegen haar schoonmoeder.

54 En Hij zeide ook tot de scharen: Wanneer gij een wolk ziet opgaan van het westen, terstond zegt gijlieden: Er komt regen; en het geschiedt alzo.