Luke 12:53 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 12:53

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

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ASV

They shall be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her mother in law.

KJV

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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Commentary

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Tertullian

Against Marcion Book IV (220)

He says at last, "The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law." Since this battle among the relatives was sung by the prophet's trumpet in the very words, I fear that Micah must have predicted it to Marcion's Christ!

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

Though the connection would seem to be of six persons, father and son, mother and daughter, mother in law and daughter in law, yet are they five, for the mother and the mother in law may be taken as the same, since she who is the mother of the son, is the mother in law of his wife. Now in a mystical sense the one house is one man, but by two we often mean the soul and the body. But if two things meet together, each one has its part; there is one which obeys, another which rules.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

The father against the son - For those who reject me will be implacable toward their very nearest relations who receive me. At this day also is this scripture fulfilled. Now likewise there is no concord between Christ and Belial.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

The sayings of the Lord Jesus in these five verses are particularly weighty and suggestive. They unfold truths which every true Christian would do well to mark and digest. They explain things in the Church, and in the world—which at first sight, are hard to be understood. We learn for one thing from these verses—how thoroughly the heart of Christ was set on finishing the work which He came into the world to do. He says, "I have a baptism to undergo"—a baptism of suffering, of wounds, of agony, of blood, and of death!

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Original language & word study

27 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
διαμερισθήσονται,	diameristhēsontai	They will be divided	G1266 →
πατὴρ	patēr	father	G3962 →
ἐπὶ	epi	against	G1909 →
υἱῷ	huiō	son	G5207 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
υἱὸς	huios	son	G5207 →
ἐπὶ	epi	against	G1909 →
πατρί,	patri	father,	G3962 →
μήτηρ	mētēr	mother	G3384 →
ἐπὶ	epi	against	G1909 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
θυγατέρα	thugatera	daughter	G2364 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
θυγάτηρ	thugatēr	daughter	G2364 →
ἐπὶ	epi	against	G1909 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
μητέρα,	mētera	mother,	G3384 →
πενθερὰ	penthera	mother-in-law	G3994 →
ἐπὶ	epi	against	G1909 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
νύμφην	numphēn	daughter-in-law	G3565 →
αὐτῆς	autēs	of her	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
νύμφη	numphē	daughter-in-law	G3565 →
ἐπὶ	epi	against	G1909 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
πενθεράν	pentheran	mother-in-law	G3994 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Micah 7:6
For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
leads to
- Matthew 10:35–36
  For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
- 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.
- Psalms 41:9
  Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
- 2 Timothy 3:2–3
  For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Through
Matthew 24:10
At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another,
leads to
- Micah 7:5–6
  Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
- Luke 21:16
  You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
- Mark 13:12
  Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
- Matthew 11:6
  Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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About Luke