Matthew 10:34 Cross References

Matthew 10:34

34: "Don't imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! No, I came to bring a sword.

"I have come to bring fire to the earth, and I wish that my task were already completed!
There is a terrible baptism ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished.
Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to bring strife and division!
From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two against--or the other way around.
There will be a division between father and son, mother and daughter, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law."

But when the Jewish leaders saw the crowds, they were jealous; so they slandered Paul and argued against whatever he said.
Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and declared, "It was necessary that this Good News from God be given first to you Jews. But since you have rejected it and judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life--well, we will offer it to Gentiles.
For this is as the Lord commanded us when he said, 'I have made you a light to the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the farthest corners of the earth.'"
When the Gentiles heard this, they were very glad and thanked the Lord for his message; and all who were appointed to eternal life became believers.
So the Lord's message spread throughout that region.

But the people of the city were divided in their opinion about them. Some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

But the Jews who spurned God's message stirred up distrust among the Gentiles against Paul and Barnabas, saying all sorts of evil things about them.

When the crowds heard him say this, some of them declared, "This man surely is the Prophet."
Others said, "He is the Messiah." Still others said, "But he can't be! Will the Messiah come from Galilee?
For the Scriptures clearly state that the Messiah will be born of the royal line of David, in Bethlehem, the village where King David was born."
So the crowd was divided in their opinion about him.
And some wanted him arrested, but no one touched him.

Then I said, "What sadness is mine, my mother. Oh, that I had died at birth! I am hated everywhere I go. I am neither a lender who has threatened to foreclose nor a borrower who refuses to pay--yet they all curse me."

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