Luke 12:49

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I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?

"Do you think that I am come to make peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather dissension.

And already the axe is lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree, therefore, that does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

After he had gone away, the Scribes and the Pharisee began to set themselves vehemently against him, and to cross-question him upon many points,

That very day there came some Pharisees to him, saying, "Get out of here and go away, for Herod wishes to kill you."

And some of the Pharisees said to them out of the crowd, "Teacher reprove your disciples!"

"I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.

"Rabbi," answered his disciples, "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

Meanwhile the crowd which was with him when he summoned Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, kept witnessing.

"Do you think that I am come to make peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather dissension.