Matthew 10:37 - Exposition

He that loveth . Natural and spontaneous love ( ὁφιλῶν ), father … mother … son … daughter . No mention of wife, brothers, sisters, as in the parallel passage in Luke, perhaps because not mentioned in our verses 35, 36. Is not worthy of me . And of all that I can be to him. Observe Christ's consciousness of his own worth. And he that loveth son , etc. A separate clause, because of the difference between the love of child to parent and that of parent to child. The latter is the stronger. The clause is omitted in B*, D, and two or three lesser authorities, but probably through homoioteleuton.