Luke 12:49-53

Not Peace, but Division

49 ¹“I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled!

50 ²I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how ³great is my distress until it is accomplished!

51 ⁴Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? ⁵No, I tell you, but rather division.

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

53 They will be divided, ⁶father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law. ”

Cross References

• 1. 12:49 [Matt. 3:11]
• 2. 12:50 Mark 10:38
• 3. 12:50 2 Cor. 5:14 (Gk.)
• 4. 12:51 For ver. 51-53, see Matt. 10:34, 35
• 5. 12:51 [Rev. 6:4]
• 6. 12:53 Matt. 10:21; [Mic. 7:6]