Matthew 10:34
Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
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- Luke 12:49–51 I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.
- Acts 14:4 The people of the city were divided. Some sided with the Jews, and others with the apostles.
- Acts 13:45–47 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying. Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”