For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
⛓ Read Micah 7 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise against parents' is a near-verbatim use of Micah 7:6, 'the son treats the father with contempt... a man's enemies are the men of his own household.' The family-rending of the eschatological crisis is drawn directly from Micah's lament over a society in moral collapse; high volume and distinctiveness.
High confidence10:35-36 is a near-verbatim rendering of Micah 7:6: 'the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.' Matthew reproduces the three paired antagonisms (father/son here as father, daughter/mother, daughter-in-law/mother-in-law) and the climactic 'a man's foes will be those of his own household' almost word for word. This is the strongest, formula-grade allusion in the chapter.
High confidenceAllusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law'—Micah's portrait of social collapse—is virtually quoted in the household divisions of 12:53. The matching kinship triads (father/son, mother/daughter, mother-in-law/daughter-in-law) make this a high-Volume allusion.
High confidenceMicah laments that son dishonors father, daughter rises against mother, and a man's enemies are those of his own household. Jesus' 'you will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends' draws on this prophetic image of eschatological family betrayal. Strong coherence and recurrence in Synoptic tradition.
High confidence'The son dishonoreth the father... a man's enemies are the men of his own house.' Micah's portrait of the collapse of household loyalty in a day of distress stands behind 10:21 ('brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents'). The same text is quoted more fully at 10:35-36; here it surfaces in the persecution context of intra-familial betrayal unto death.
High confidence'will deliver up one another, and will hate one another' draws on Micah 7:6, where son dishonors father and a man's enemies are his own household, the eschatological breakdown of kinship loyalty Jesus cites explicitly in Matthew 10:21,35-36.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Micah's portrait of eschatological family division — son dishonoring father, daughter against mother, 'a man's enemies are the men of his own household' — undergirds Jesus' setting discipleship against the closest kin (and is explicitly cited at Luke 12:53). Recurrence in Luke strengthens its availability here.
Medium confidence