Luke 12:51
Good News Translation
Do you suppose that I came to bring peace to the world? No, not peace, but division.

New Revised Standard Version
Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

Contemporary English Version
Do you think that I came to bring peace to earth? No indeed! I came to make people choose sides.

New American Bible
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.

Luke 12:49 I am come to cast fire on the earth. And what will I, but that it be kindled?

Zechariah 11:7,8,10,11,14 And I will feed the flock of slaughter for this, O ye poor of the flock. And I took unto me two rods, one I called Beauty, and the other I called a Cord, and I fed the flock. . . .

Matthew 10:34-36 Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. . . .

Matthew 24:7-10 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And there shall be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in places. . . .

Context
Not Peace, But Division
50And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized. And how am I straitened until it be accomplished? 51Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. 52For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three.…
Cross References
Matthew 10:34
Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.

Luke 12:52
For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three.

Luke 12:50
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