Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 10:20-21

"For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you. 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." — Matthew 10:20-21 (ASV)

For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. 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.

Strange venom of human nature. It never grows so angry against anything as against God's truth. Why is this? False religions will tolerate one another, but they will not tolerate the religion of Christ.

Is this not all accounted for by that old, dark saying at the gates of Eden, I will put enmity between thee and the woman – between thy seed and her seed? That enmity is sure to come up as long as the world stands.