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Matthew 10:35-37
New English Translation
Matthew 10:35-37
New English Translation
35 For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, 36 and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.[a]
37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy[b] of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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- Matthew 10:36 tn Matt 10:35-36 are an allusion to Mic 7:6.
- Matthew 10:37 tn Here “worthy” (ἄξιος, axios) means “does not deserve to belong to me” (BDAG 94 s.v. 2.a), i.e., “is not worthy to be my disciple” (cf. Luke 14:26) or perhaps “is not worthy to participate in the kingdom” (to be undeserving of Jesus is to be undeserving of the kingdom he brings).sn The statement demands uncompromising, radical loyalty to Jesus, a loyalty so powerful that it surpasses normal human relationships, even familial ones.
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