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"I have come to set fire to the earth! And how I wish it were already kindled!
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I have an immersion to undergo -- how pressured I feel till it's over!
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Do you think that I have come to bring peace in the Land? Not peace, I tell you, but division!
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For from now on, a household of five will be divided, three against two, two against three.
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Father will be divided 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."w
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Then to the crowds Yeshua said, "When you see a cloud-bank rising in the west, at once you say that a rainstorm is coming;
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and when the wind is from the south, you say there will be a heat wave, and there is.
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Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky -- how is it that you don't know how to interpret this present time?
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Why don't you decide for yourselves what is the right course to follow?
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If someone brings a lawsuit against you, take pains to settle with him first; otherwise he will take the matter to court, and the judge will turn you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you in jail.
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I tell you, you won't get out of there till you have paid the last penny!"