Matthew 10:34-36 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

Family Feuds (Luke 12:51-53), cf. Matthew 10:21 supra. Family and social strife is a portent of the end in apocalyptic literature (cf. the mission of Elijah, Malachi 4:5 f.). So the Rabbis interpreted Micah 7:6. History, both in the early Church and on the modern mission field, has abundantly illustrated the sad truth of the saying.

Matthew 10:36 was Jesus-' own experience (Mark 3:21). Lk. rightly interprets sword (Matthew 10:34) as division.

Matthew 10:34-36

34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.