Matthew 10:21
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
Berean Standard Bible
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In Context
20For it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:11Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.
Job 19:19All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
Zechariah 13:3And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.’ When he prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will pierce him through.
Matthew 24:10At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another,
Luke 12:51Do you think that I have come to bring 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 →