Who is for or against Jesus?
The sayings classify uncertain allegiance in opposite practical directions, though both eliminate a neutral category if applied to the same binary division.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Under the same binary categories the sayings are contrapositives, and the differing practical settings do not create a logical opposition.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Anyone not with Jesus counts as against him
He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.