Luke 12:49–59

⁴⁹‘Fire I came to cast to the earth, and what will I if already it was kindled? ⁵⁰but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!

⁵¹‘Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division; ⁵²for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided—three against two, and two against three; ⁵³a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.’

⁵⁴And he said also to the multitudes, ‘When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so; ⁵⁵and when—a south wind blowing, ye say, that there will be heat, and it is; ⁵⁶hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time—how do ye not make proof of it?

⁵⁷‘And why, also, of yourselves, judge ye not what is righteous? ⁵⁸for, as thou art going away with thy opponent to the ruler, in the way give diligence to be released from him, lest he may drag thee unto the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer may cast thee into prison; ⁵⁹I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till even the last mite thou mayest give back.’

Chapter 13