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Previous | 362 | Next come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! [Unstated Case: This conflict will have its effect on households.] [Unstated Case: This conflict will have its effect on households.] [Unstated Case: This conflict will have its effect on households.] Description (Result): 3 For there will be five in a house: there will be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, Description (Result): 52 From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; 53 they will be divided: father 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. Description (Result): 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; 36 and one's foes will be members of one's own household. Implication: 4 and they will stand alone. Implication: 37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38 and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. Both Luke and Matthew have an expanded form of the Q/Thomas tradition. Luke contains an amplification in the form of a soliloquy by Jesus on the baptism with which he has been baptized. Also it contains an amplified version of the divisions in the household, not only speaking of fathers and sons but speaking of mothers, daughters, mothers-in-law, and daughters-in-law. The Matthean version does not speak of fathers, mothers, and mothers-in-law being set against their sons, daughters, and daughters-in-law. In addition, Matthew contains an extended implication about people who love family members more than Jesus and are not willing to take up their cross and follow Jesus. The statement in Thomas that "they will stand alone" appears to be a Thomasine way of referring to the lack of relationship with Jesus that is also spoken about in Matt 10:37-39. Again we find the variation characteristic of Q/Thomas tradition. In this instance, the contrawisdom exists in the Q tradition itself and the Gospel of Thomas simply includes it without amplification. Previous | 362 | Next