{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Flutheranreflections.org%2Fepisodes%2Fjesus-brings-division-A83uIfPn","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Jesus Brings Division","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/4036db3c-03ca-468e-94ab-717fa004c56f/42a9aa96-88b7-40e4-9304-3bbde9708925/lutheran.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/b3ac1328-3e9b-40d4-ab5f-17c60e298d3c\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Jesus Brings Division\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"The reading for this week is Matthew 10:34-39, where Jesus says, \"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.\" How do we reconcile this with the many verses in the Bible that associate Jesus with peace? In what sense does Jesus \"set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law\"? We turn to John Chrysostom's commentary on Matthew for insight."}