Luke 12:49-59 ▼

49 I came to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

50 But I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and how distressed I am until it should be accomplished!

51 Do you? think that I came to grant peace on the earth? No, I say to you?, but rather division.

52 For from now there will be five in one house divided, three against two and two against three.

53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against the daughter and daughter against the mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law.”

54 And He was also saying to the crowds, “When you? see the cloud rising up in the west, immediately you? say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.

55 And when a south wind is blowing, you? say, ‘There will be heat,’ and it happens.

56 Hypocrites! The face of the earth and of the sky you? know to discern, but how do you? not know to discern this time?

57 And why do you? not even judge for yourselves what is right?

58 For as you are going with your adversary before a ruler, give effort to be set free from him in the way, lest ever he should drag you away to the judge, and the judge will deliver you to the officer, and the officer will cast you into prison.

59 I say to you, you shall never come out from there until you should pay back even the last lepton.”