"I have come to bring fire to the earth. [Note: This means division within families. See verses 51-53] And how I wish that fire were already started [i.e., so I could complete my mission sooner]!

But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

And when his disciples James and John saw this , they said, Lord, wilt thou that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and consume them?

And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the court, and had sat down together, Peter sat in the midst of them.

And a certain maid seeing him as he sat in the light of the fire , and looking stedfastly upon him, said, This man also was with him.