Luke 2:35

Simeon warns Mary that a sword will pierce her soul, exposing the thoughts of many hearts. It matters because Christ's mission would bring deep sorrow and reveal true allegiances.

Cross-references · 11

• 1 Cor 11:19For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
• Deut 8:2You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
• Matt 12:24–35But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
• Ps 42:10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
• Luke 16:14–15The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
• John 15:22–24If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
• Judg 5:15–16The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart.
• John 19:25But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
• Acts 8:21–23You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
• John 8:42–47Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

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