The Meaning of Matthew 10:35 Explained

Matthew 10:35

KJV: 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.

YLT: for I came to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

Darby: For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;

ASV: For I came 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:

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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. 

What does Matthew 10:35 Mean?

Context Summary

Matthew 10:34-42 - Receiving Christ's Representatives
In Jesus Christ we acquire a new affinity, stronger than that of family ties. When we enter into the family of God we belong to all His children. They are our brethren and sisters in the most intimate sense. See Matthew 12:48-50. The new love that floods our nature does not make us less but more tender and sympathetic toward our own kith and kin; but if we are compelled to choose, then we must stand with the children of God, though it should rend us from the old happy family life in which we were nurtured.
As to the closing paragraph, may we not illustrate it thus? When the widow who sustained Elijah at Zarephath entered Paradise, she found herself standing amid the great prophets of Israel. When she asked the attendant angel whether there was not some mistake, he replied, "Certainly not. In treating the prophet as you did, you proved yourself to be of the same spirit and temper as he; and it is but right that you should share in the prophet's reward."
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Chapter Summary: Matthew 10

1  Jesus sends out his apostles, enabling them with power to do miracles;
5  giving them their charge, teaches them;
16  comforts them against persecutions;
40  and promises a blessing to those who receive them

Greek Commentary for Matthew 10:35

Set at variance [διχασαι]
Literally divide in two, διχα — dicha Jesus uses Micah 7:1-6 to describe the rottenness of the age as Micah had done. Family ties and social ties cannot stand in the way of loyalty to Christ and righteous living. [source]
The daughter-in-law [νυμπην]
Literally bride, the young wife who is possibly living with the mother-in-law. It is a tragedy to see a father or mother step between the child and Christ. [source]

Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Matthew 10:35

Luke 12:53 Daughter-in-law []
See on Matthew 10:35. [source]
John 1:30 A man [ἀνὴρ]
Three words are used in the New Testament for man: ἄῤῥην , or ἄρσην , ἀνήρ , and ἄνθρωπος . Ἄρσην marks merely the sexual distinction, male (Romans 1:27; Revelation 12:5, Revelation 12:13). Ἁνήρ denotes the man as distinguished from the woman, as male or as a husband (Acts 8:12; Matthew 1:16), or from a boy (Matthew 14:21). Also man as endowed with courage, intelligence, strength, and other noble attributes (1 Corinthians 13:11; Ephesians 4:13; James 3:2). Ἄνθρωπος is generic, without distinction of sex, a human being (John 16:21), though often used in connections which indicate or imply sex, as Matthew 19:10; Matthew 10:35. Used of mankind (Matthew 4:4), or of the people (Matthew 5:13, Matthew 5:16; Matthew 6:5, Matthew 6:18; John 6:10). Of man as distinguished from animals or plants (Matthew 4:19; 2 Peter 2:16), and from God, Christ as divine and angels (Matthew 10:32; John 10:33; Luke 2:15). With the notion of weakness leading to sin, and with a contemptuous sense (1 Corinthians 2:5; 1 Peter 4:2; John 5:12; Romans 9:20). The more honorable and noble sense thus attaches to ἀνήρ rather than to ἄνθρωπος . Thus Herodotus says that when the Medes charged the Greeks, they fell in vast numbers, so that it was manifest to Xerxes that he had many men combatants ( ἄνθρωποι ) but few warriors ( ἄνθρωποι ) vii., 210. So Homer: “O friends, be men ( ἀνέρες ), and take on a stout heart” (“Iliad,” v., 529). Ἁνήρ is therefore used here of Jesus by the Baptist with a sense of dignity. Compare ἄνθρωπος , in John 1:6, where the word implies no disparagement, but is simply indefinite. In John ἀνήρ has mostly the sense of husband (John 4:16-18). See John 6:10. -DIVIDER-
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What do the individual words in Matthew 10:35 mean?

I came for to set at variance A man against the father of him and a daughter the mother of her a daughter-in-law mother-in-law
ἦλθον γὰρ διχάσαι Ἄνθρωπον κατὰ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ Καὶ θυγατέρα τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῆς νύμφην πενθερᾶς

ἦλθον  I  came 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 1st Person Singular
Root: ἔρχομαι  
Sense: to come.
διχάσαι  to  set  at  variance 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Infinitive Active
Root: διχάζω  
Sense: to cut into two parts, cleave asunder, sever.
Ἄνθρωπον  A  man 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Singular
Root: ἄνθρωπος  
Sense: a human being, whether male or female.
κατὰ  against 
Parse: Preposition
Root: κατά 
Sense: down from, through out.
πατρὸς  father 
Parse: Noun, Genitive Masculine Singular
Root: προπάτωρ 
Sense: generator or male ancestor.
αὐτοῦ  of  him 
Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Root: αὐτός  
Sense: himself, herself, themselves, itself.
θυγατέρα  a  daughter 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Singular
Root: θυγάτηρ  
Sense: a daughter.
μητρὸς  mother 
Parse: Noun, Genitive Feminine Singular
Root: μήτηρ  
Sense: a mother.
αὐτῆς  of  her 
Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Genitive Feminine 3rd Person Singular
Root: αὐτός  
Sense: himself, herself, themselves, itself.
νύμφην  a  daughter-in-law 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Singular
Root: νύμφη  
Sense: a betrothed woman, a bride.
πενθερᾶς  mother-in-law 
Parse: Noun, Genitive Feminine Singular
Root: πενθερά  
Sense: mother-in-law, a wife’s mother.

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