John 10:19-30
We should notice, first, in this passage, what strifes and controversies our Lord occasioned when He was on earth. 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. 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.” (Matt. 10:34) The fault was not in Christ or His doctrine, but in the carnal mind of His Jewish hearers.