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Matthew 10:35 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 35. 35For 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.
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Role in This Section
Cites household divisions between son and father, daughter and mother.
Read It With
- Matthew 10:34–10:39
Read Matthew 10:35 with 10:34–10:39. In isolation, this verse's contribution—cites household divisions between son and father, daughter and mother—can be detached from its speaker, audience, narrative or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: Jesus denies bringing simple social peace, cites Micah-like household division, demands loyalty beyond family claims, and names cross-bearing and losing life as the path to finding it.
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Read Matthew 10:34–10:39 — Allegiance to Jesus can divide householdsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Matthew 10:34–10:39, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control without treating one edition as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file data/sblgnt/text/Matt.txt, Matthew 10:34–10:39
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