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49 "I came to cast fire upon the earth. How I wish that it was already ablaze!
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"I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
50 I have a baptism I must experience. How I am distressed until it's completed!
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I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed!
51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, I have come instead to bring division.
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Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!
52 From now on, a household of five will be divided—three against two and two against three.
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From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three;
53 Father will square off against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against mother; and mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
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they will be divided: father 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."
54 Jesus also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud forming in the west, you immediately say, ‘It's going to rain.' And indeed it does.
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He also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, "It is going to rain'; and so it happens.
55 And when a south wind blows, you say, ‘A heat wave is coming.' And it does.
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And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, "There will be scorching heat'; and it happens.
56 Hypocrites! You know how to interpret conditions on earth and in the sky. How is it that you don't know how to interpret the present time?
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You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
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