Matthew 10:34
“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.
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- Luke 12:49–51 “I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled. But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
- Acts 14:4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews and part with the apostles.
- Acts 13:45–47 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed. Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’”