For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Luke 12:52 in context
Luke 12:49–55
49
“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
50
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
51
Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
52
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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.
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