Re: Mat 10:34
Because he came as catalyst.
(Its interesting to me that it is said this way, as it implies it was a choice he made, a mission undertaken)
Quote:
10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
10:35 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.
10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
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I read this as that he set himself against the status quo of the time
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