Luke 12:49-51

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Jesus the Cause of Division

⁴⁹ “I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already ablaze! ⁵⁰ I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!^{(A) 51} Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!^(B)