1ġ See John Gill’s commentary on John 9:22. Even their own family members disowned them. Those Jews who confessed Christ were excommunicated from the people of Israel and placed under cherem. Not too long after Christianity was born, the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin became hostile to any Jews who converted to Christianity. However, in the Middle East, particularly Judea, which is the setting of the Gospel, the religious majority was Judaism. This may not be well understood in America, in which the religious majority is Christianity (however, it does happen on occasion). 53 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.
36 And a man’s enemies shall be of his house. What does this division involve? If we read the next verses following either verse, the Lord Jesus Christ explains that it involves division of families.ģ5 For I came to sever a man from his father, and the daughter from her mother, and the daughter-in-law from her mother-in-law. The “sword” (μάχαιρα) represents “division” (διαμερισμός), and this is evident when we examine the synoptic parallel in Luke 12:51, in which it is written,ĥ1 Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? No, I tell you! But rather, division! I did not come to send peace, but rather, a sword! 34 Do not think that I came to send peace on the earth.
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