What is the message conveyed to us thru Mt 11:34

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As I was reading the Gospel of Mathew I came across the passage - Jesus says
“I did not come to bring peace - Son will rise against Father and Daughter against mother and …” I referred the other Gospels too have a similar quote. It puzzled me but I thought there maybe some hidden meaning - what am I missing.
 
34-36. Parallel in Luke 12, 51-53. A prediction of the discord which His teaching will cause among men, even among the members of the same household. 34. Christ is speaking here of the results of His teaching: some will not believe and will hate those who do. But His intention was to bring peace to the world (cf. Luke 2, 14). It would be an abuse of these words of Christ to quote them in favor of war. The sword is here a figure of speech for persecution. 35 f. His doctrine will cause division even in such natural pairs as father and son, mother and daughter, etc. Both these verses are quoted from Mich. 7, 6. It would be wrong to cite these words in the sense that normally in good Christian families the worst enemies of a man’s salvation or of his religious vocation are the members of his own family. (Catholic Biblical Association, A Commentary on the New Testament, 1942, p. 81; source)
 
savithri said:
As I was reading the Gospel of Mathew I came across the passage - Jesus says
“I did not come to bring peace - Son will rise against Father and Daughter against mother and …” I referred the other Gospels too have a similar quote. It puzzled me but I thought there maybe some hidden meaning - what am I missing.
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Truth must be of greater import to us than blood.
 
Though not a Biblical scholar by any means, I’ll give my opinion for what it’s worth.

Jesus is telling us that not everyone will believe in Him and uses the example of family members being divided because some will believe and others will not. In the days that Christ walked the earth and preached, the family unit was very strong and yet He warned them that belief in Christ could (not will) cause people very close to each other to turn against each other. And they did. Some Jews were converted to following the Resurrected Christ and others persecuted His followers even fellow Jews. Some Gentiles accepted Jesus and others didn’t.

So did Christ bring peace? Yes, to those who chose to follow Him. But He also “brought” war because there were those who could/would not follow Him. 👍
 
When I was a young mother I had a friend down the block who was of the Jewish faith. She shared with me one day that she believed in Jesus and wanted to convert, but she was waiting for the time for her mother to die, so that she would not upset her.

In the best case scenario she would go ahead, study and convert, pray for and love her mother, and accept her anger.

That is what our Lord Jesus Christ desires of us, and can give us the strength for if we ask Him.
 
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Though not a Biblical scholar by any means, I’ll give my opinion for what it’s worth.

Jesus is telling us that not everyone will believe in Him and uses the example of family members being divided because some will believe and others will not. In the days that Christ walked the earth and preached, the family unit was very strong and yet He warned them that belief in Christ could (not will) cause people very close to each other to turn against each other. And they did. Some Jews were converted to following the Resurrected Christ and others persecuted His followers even fellow Jews. Some Gentiles accepted Jesus and others didn’t.

So did Christ bring peace? Yes, to those who chose to follow Him. But He also “brought” war because there were those who could/would not follow Him. 👍
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I agree, and this happens today as well as at the time Jesus walked the earth.
 
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