- 12:49I have come to cast fire on the earth, and how I wish that it were already kindled!
- 12:50But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how I am pressed until it is accomplished!
- 12:51Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
- 12:52For from now on there will be five in one house divided, three against two and two against three.
- 12:53They will be divided: father against son and son against father; mother against her daughter and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
- 12:54And He said also to the crowds, When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say that a shower is coming, and so it happens.
- 12:55And when you see a south wind blowing, you say that there will be scorching heat, and it happens.
- 12:56Hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the earth and of the sky. How is it then that you do not know how to discern this time?
- 12:57And why do you not judge also of yourselves what is right?
- 12:58For as you are going with your opponent at law to a magistrate, endeavor to be released from him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge; and the judge will deliver you up to the officer, and the officer will throw you into prison.
- 12:59I tell you, You shall by no means come out from there until you have paid the very last lepton.