Luke 12:51
Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
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- Matthew 10:34–36 “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s foes will be those of his own household.
- Luke 12:49 “I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
- Zechariah 11:10–11 I took my staff Favor and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples. It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.