Matthew 10:21
And brother will hand over brother to death, and father will hand over son. And children will rise up against parents and bring about their deaths.
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In Context
20For it is not you who will be speaking, but the Spirit of your Father, who will speak in you.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:11And the king said to Abishai and to all his servants: “Behold, my son, who went forth from my loins, is seeking my life. How much more does a son of Benjamin do so now? Permit him, so that he may curse, in accord with the command of the Lord.
Job 19:19Those who were sometimes my counselors, treat me like an abomination; and he whom I valued the most has turned against me.
Zechariah 13:3And this shall be: when any devotee will continue to prophesy, his father and his mother, who conceived him, will say to him, “You shall not live, because you have been speaking a lie in the name of the Lord.” And his father and his mother, his own parents, will pierce him, when he will prophesy.
Matthew 24:10And then many will be led into sin, and will betray one another, and will have hatred for one another.
Luke 12:51Do you think that I have come to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 10:17-42
Instructions to the Apostles. 16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. 17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; 18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. 19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.… Read the whole commentary →