49. I have come to cast a fire on the earth; and what will I if already it has been kindled?
50. But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it shall have been accomplished!
51. Think ye that I have come to give peace in the earth? Nay, I say to you, but rather division:
52. for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against three:
53. father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
54. And he said also to the crowds, When ye see a cloud rising out of the west, straightway ye say, A shower is coming; and so it happens.
55. And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it happens.
56. Hypocrites, ye know how to judge of the appearance of the earth and of the heaven; how is it then that ye do not discern this time?