Matthew 10:21

King James Version

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"Brothers will turn against their own brothers and hand them over to be killed. Fathers will hand over their own children to be killed. Children will fight against their own parents and will have them killed.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The brother shall betraye the brother to deeth and the father the sonne. And the chyldre shall aryse agaynste their fathers and mothers and shall put them to deethe:

International Standard Version
"Brother will hand brother over to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against parents and have them put to death.Micah 7:6; Matthew 10:35-36; Luke 21:16;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
"Now brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

New Century Version
"Brothers will give their own brothers to be killed, and fathers will give their own children to be killed. Children will fight against their own parents and have them put to death.

Update Bible Version
And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the brother will deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children will rise up against [their] parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Amplified Bible
"Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will rise up and rebel against their parents and cause them to be put to death.

English Standard Version
Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

World English Bible
Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child; and children shall rise up against their parents, and kill them.

Weymouth's New Testament
Brother will betray brother to death, and father, child; and children will rise against their own parents and will put them to death.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`And the brother shal take the brother in to deeth, and the fader the sone, and sones schulen rise ayens fadir and modir, and schulen turmente hem bi deeth.

English Revised Version
And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Berean Standard Bible
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

Contemporary English Version
Brothers and sisters will betray one another and have each other put to death. Parents will betray their own children, and children will turn against their parents and have them killed.

American Standard Version
And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Bible in Basic English
And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

Complete Jewish Bible
"A brother will betray his brother to death, and a father his child; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.

Darby Translation
But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;

Etheridge Translation
But the brother shall deliver his brother unto death, and the father his son; and the sons shall rise up against their fathers, and shall slay them.

Murdock Translation
And brother shall deliver up his brother to death, and a father his son; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to die.

King James Version (1611)
And the brother shall deliuer vp the brother to death, and the father the childe: and the children shall rise vp against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

New Living Translation
"A brother will betray his brother to death, a father will betray his own child, and children will rebel against their parents and cause them to be killed.

New Life Bible
"A brother will hand over a brother to be put to death. A father will hand over his child to be put to death. Children will hand over their parents to be put to death.

New Revised Standard
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the sonne, and the children shal rise against their parents, and shall cause them to die.

George Lamsa Translation
Brother will deliver up his own brother to death, and father his son; and children will rise up against their parents and put them to death.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, brother, will deliver up, brother, unto death, and, father, child, - and, children, will rise up, against parents, and will put them to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death.

Revised Standard Version
Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The brother shall delyuer vp the brother to death, and the father the sonne, & the chyldren shall ryse agaynst their fathers, and mothers, and shall put them to death.

Good News Translation
"People will hand over their own brothers to be put to death, and fathers will do the same to their children; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.

Christian Standard Bible®
“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

Hebrew Names Version
"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Lexham English Bible
"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,

Literal Translation
But brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child. And children will rise up against parents and will put them to death.

Young's Literal Translation
`And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The brother shall delyuer the brother to deeth, and the father the sonne. And the chyldren shall aryse agaynst their fathers & mothers, & shall helpe them to deeth:

Mace New Testament (1729)
then the brother shall betray his brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against their parents, and be the instruments of their death.

THE MESSAGE
"When people realize it is the living God you are presenting and not some idol that makes them feel good, they are going to turn on you, even people in your own family. There is a great irony here: proclaiming so much love, experiencing so much hate! But don't quit. Don't cave in. It is all well worth it in the end. It is not success you are after in such times but survival. Be survivors! Before you've run out of options, the Son of Man will have arrived.

New English Translation
"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

New King James Version
"Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"Brothers are gonna double-cross each other, and a father will do the same to his kid. Children will buck their parents and turn on 'em, and have 'em put to death.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

Legacy Standard Bible
"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. ¹⁷ But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; ¹⁸ And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. ¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. ²⁰ For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. ²¹ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. ²² And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. ²³ But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come. ²⁴ The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. ²⁵ It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the brother shall: Matthew 10:34-36, Matthew 24:10, Micah 7:5, Micah 7:6, Zechariah 13:3, Mark 13:12, Mark 13:13, Luke 12:51-53, Luke 21:16, Luke 21:17

the children: 2 Samuel 16:11, 2 Samuel 17:1-4, Job 19:19

Reciprocal: Job 19:14 - kinsfolk Psalms 3:1 - many Psalms 27:10 - When Psalms 31:11 - especially Psalms 50:20 - thine own Psalms 69:8 - and an alien Jeremiah 9:4 - ye heed Jeremiah 11:21 - that seek Jeremiah 12:6 - thy brethren Jeremiah 13:14 - even Jeremiah 15:10 - a man Daniel 11:33 - yet Zechariah 11:6 - deliver Malachi 2:10 - why Matthew 10:35 - General Mark 13:11 - and deliver Luke 12:53 - General Acts 5:33 - took Acts 9:16 - I will Acts 14:22 - we 1 Corinthians 15:19 - of all 1 Timothy 1:9 - murderers 2 Timothy 3:3 - natural Revelation 6:11 - until

Cross-References

Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:26
And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

Numbers 24:24
And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death,.... Christ having fortified the minds of his disciples by the foregoing promises of divine influence and assistance, proceeds to open more largely and particularly the sorrows, troubles, and afflictions they must expect would attend the faithful ministration of his Gospel; as, that the true followers of Christ should not only be persecuted and betrayed, and delivered up into the hands of the civil magistrate, by persons that were strangers to them; but even by their nearest relations, brethren, whom the nearness of blood, should oblige to the tenderest regards to each other, to the securing of property and preserving of life: these should deliver up those that were so nearly related to them in the bonds of consanguinity, into the hands persecuting men in power, in order to be put to death; than which scarce anything can be more barbarous and unnatural, though the next instances exceed it:

and the father the child, and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. The father laying aside his natural affection for his child, whom he has begotten, and brought up, and has took so much care of, and delight in, and perhaps his only one, his son aud heir; and yet, professing a faith different from his, such is his blind zeal and bigotry, that, breaking through all the ties of parental relation and affection, he delivers him up into the hands of wicked magistrates, to put him to death: and, on the other hand, children, forgetting the bonds they are in, and the obligations they lie under to their aged parents, rise up against them, and either with their own hands murder them, or appear as witnesses against them, and give their hearty consent to the taking away of their lives; even of them who have been the means and instruments of bringing them into the world, and of bringing them up in it. This shows the sad corruption of human nature, its enmity to the Gospel of Christ, and the inveterate malice and hatred of Satan against Christ, and his interest. Something like this is said by the Jews themselves, as what shall be in the times of the Messiah; for a little before his coming, or in the age in which the son of David comes, they say,

"the son shall deal basely by his father, the daughter shall rise up against her mother--a man's enemies shall be of his own household; the face of that generation shall be as the face of a dog; and the son shall not reverence his father g.''

g Misn. Sota, c. 9. sect. 15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the brother shall deliver up the brother ... - Were there no evidence that this had been done, it would scarcely be “credible.” The ties which bind brothers and sisters, and parents and children together, are so strong that it could scarcely be believed that division of sentiment on religious subjects would cause them to forget these tender relations. Yet history assures us that this has been often done. If this be so, then how inexpressibly awful must be the malignity of the human heart by nature against religion! Nothing else but this dreadful opposition to God and his gospel ever has induced or ever can induce people to violate the most tender relations, and consign the best friends to torture, racks, and flames. It adds to the horrors of this, that those who were put to death in persecution were tormented in the most awful modes that human ingenuity could devise. They were crucified; were thrown into boiling oil; were burned at the stake; were roasted slowly over coals; were compelled to drink melted lead; were torn in pieces by beasts of prey; were covered with pitch and set on fire. Yet, dreadful as this prediction was, it was fulfilled; and, incredible as it seems, parents and children, husbands and wives, were found wicked enough to deliver up each other to these cruel modes of death on account of attachment to the gospel. Such is the opposition of the heart of man to the gospel! That hostility which will overcome the strong ties of natural affection, and which will be satisfied with nothing else to show its power, can be no slight opposition to the gospel of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 10:21. And the brother shall deliver up the brother, c.] What an astonishing enmity is there in the soul of man against God and goodness! That men should think they did God service, in putting to death those who differ from them in their political or religious creed, is a thing that cannot be accounted for but on the principle of an indescribable depravity.

O shame to men! devil with devil damn'd

Firm concord holds, men only disagree

Of creatures rational though under hope

Of heavenly grace; and, God proclaiming peace,

Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife

Among themselves, and levy cruel wars,

Wasting the earth, each other to destroy!

PAR. Lost, b. ii. l. 496.