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"I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
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But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
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Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
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For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
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They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
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He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it happens.
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When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching heat,' and it happens.
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You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this time?
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Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?
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For as you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be freed from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
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I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny."