DOES THE TRUTH CAUSE DIVISION?


MATTHEW 10:21,34-37 NKJV
21   "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.
34   "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
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 foes will be those of his own household.'
37   "He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or
daughter more then Me is not worthy of Me.

MARK 13:12 NKJV
     "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.

LUKE 12:51-53 NKJV
51   "Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.
52   "For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three.
53   "Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and
daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against
mother-in-law."

JOHN 7:12 NKJV
     And there was much murmuring among the people concerning Him. Some said, "He is good";
others said, "No, on the contrary, He deceives the people."

JOHN 7:43 NKJV
     So there was a division among the people because of Him.

JOHN 9:16 NKJV
     Therefore some of the Pharisees said, "This Man is not from God, because He does not keep
the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a
division among them.

JOHN 10:19 NKJV
     Therefore there was a division among the Jews because of these sayings.

ACTS 4:1-3 NKJV
1    Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees
came upon them,
2    being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from
the dead.
3    And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already
evening.

ACTS 4:18-20 NKJV
18   And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
19   But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to
listen to you more than to God, you judge.
20   "For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."

ACTS 5:33 NKJV
     When they heard this, they were furious and took counsel to kill them.

ACTS 6:9-15; 7:51-60
THE ACCUSATION AND MARTYRDOM OF STEPHEN

ACTS 14:4 NKJV
     But the multitude of the city was divided: part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

ACTS 14:19 NKJV
     Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the multitudes, they
stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

ACTS 15:2 NKJV
     Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they
determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem, to the
apostles and elders, about this question.

ACTS 17:5-6 NKJV
5    But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the evil men from the
marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason,
and sought to bring them out to the people.
6    But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the
city, crying out, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.

ACTS 18:5-6 NKJV
5    When Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the Spirit, and
testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
6    But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook his garments and said to them, "Your
blood be upon your own heads; I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

ACTS 19:23 NKJV
     And about that time there arose a great commotion about the Way.


ACTS 20:1 NKJV
     After the uproar had ceased, Paul called the disciples to him, embraced them, and departed to
go to Macedonia.

ACTS 21:30-31 NKJV
30   And all the city was disturbed; and the people ran together, seized Paul, and dragged him out
of the temple; and immediately the doors were shut.
31   Now as they were seeking to kill him, news came to the commander of the garrison that all
Jerusalem was in an uproar.

ACTS 23:6-10 NKJV
6    But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out
in the council, "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and
resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"
7    And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and
the assembly was divided.
8    For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection--and no angel or spirit; but the Pharisees
confess both.
9    Then there arose a loud outcry. And the scribes who were of the Pharisees party arose and
protested, saying, "We find no evil in this man; but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us
not fight against God."
10   And when there arose a great dissension, the commander, fearing lest Paul might be pulled to
pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and
bring him into the barracks.

ROMANS 9:32-33 NKJV
32   Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they
stumbled at that stumbling stone.
33   As it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, And whoever
believes on Him will not be put to shame."

1 CORINTHIANS 1:23 NKJV
     but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,

GALATIANS 5:11 NKJV
     And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the
offense of the cross has ceased.

1 PETER 2:6-8 NKJV
6    Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion A chief cornerstone,
elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame."
7    Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, "The stone
which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone,"
8    and "A stone of stumbling And a rock of offense." They stumble, being disobedient to the
word, to which they also were appointed.




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