48. but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
49. “I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
50. But I have a immersion to be immersed with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
51. Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
52. For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
53. They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
54. He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.
55. When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.
56. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?