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 came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not so at all, but rather discord.

Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree then that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire.

After He left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be violently enraged against Him and to try to draw Him out on many subjects,

Just at that time some Pharisees came up and said to Him, "Get out at once! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!"

Then some Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, reprove your disciples."

We must continue to do the works of Him who sent me while it is daylight. Night is coming when no one can do any work.

The disciples said to Him, "Teacher, the Jews just now were trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?"

The crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead, kept on talking about it.

Do you think that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not so at all, but rather discord.