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. [Matthew 3:11]
• 2. Mark 10:38
• 3. 2 Corinthians 5:14(Gk.)
• 4. For ver. 51-53, see Matthew 10:34, 35
• 5. [Revelation 6:4]
• 6. Matthew 10:21; [Micah 7:6]