Jesus Didn't Come to Bring Peace Jesus Came to Bring a Sword and Division | Matthew 10: 39 Explained

Jesus didn't come to bring peace to the earth. He came to bring a sword and cause division. These are His own words found in Matthew 10: 39. The idea that Jesus did not come to bring peace is a hard pill for a lot of people to swallow. Mainline denominations mostly push the image of Jesus as the prince of peace, but Jesus' own words are what we need to look at and understand. Matthew 10: 39 explained that Jesus did not come to bring peace. In Luke 12: 49-53 He makes is clear that He came to cause division and to be the ultimate dividing line. Does the fast that Jesus tells us Himself that He is not the prince of peace leave you unsettled? Well don't be! We're going to explain Matthew 10:34 and what it means for us. The important thing is to understand who God really is and to take His own word for it instead of vision of God others create.

Matthew 10:34
New Living Translation
34 “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword.

Luke 12:49-53
New Living Translation
Jesus Causes Division
49 “I have come to set the world on fire, and I wish it were already burning! 50 I have a terrible baptism of suffering ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished. 51 Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other! 52 From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two against—or two in favor and three against.

53 ‘Father will be divided against son
and son against father;
mother against daughter
and daughter against mother;
and mother-in-law against daughter-in-law
and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’[a]”