Why Strife & Dissension?

We read that “there was a division among the Jews for His sayings” – and that “many of them said He hath a devil, and is mad,” while others took an opposite view [John 10:19–21]. It may seem strange, at first sight, that He who came to preach peace between God and man should be the cause of contention. But herein were His own words literally fulfilled – “I came not to send peace, but a sword” (Matthew 10:34). The fault was not in Christ or His doctrine, but in the carnal mind of His Jewish heare...