Matthew 10:21
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
World Messianic Bible
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In Context
20For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:11David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has invited him.
Job 19:19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
Zechariah 13:3It will happen that when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in the LORD’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.
Matthew 24:10Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
Luke 12:51Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no, but rather 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 →