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?

You think I am here to make peace on earth? No, I tell you, it is dissension.

The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points,

Just then some Pharisees came up to tell him, "Get away from here, for Herod intends to kill you."

Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Check your disciples, teacher."

While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.

"Rabbi," said the disciples, "the Jews were trying to stone you only the other day; are you going back there?"

Now the people who were with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, testified to it;

You think I am here to make peace on earth? No, I tell you, it is dissension.