51 (A)Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, (B)but rather division.

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Christ Brings Division(A)

34 (B)“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to (C)‘set[a] a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; 36 and (D)‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’

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  1. Matthew 10:35 alienate a man from

Christ Brings Division(A)

49 (B)“I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

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14 Then I cut in two my other staff, [a]Bonds, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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  1. Zechariah 11:14 Or Unity

10 And I took my staff, [a]Beauty, and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples. 11 So it was broken on that day. Thus (A)the[b] poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.

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  1. Zechariah 11:10 Or Grace
  2. Zechariah 11:11 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX the Canaanites

For (A)nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be (B)famines, [a]pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

(C)“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.

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  1. Matthew 24:7 NU omits pestilences

So I fed the flock for slaughter, [a]in particular (A)the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called [b]Beauty, and the other I called [c]Bonds; and I fed the flock. I [d]dismissed the three shepherds (B)in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

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  1. Zechariah 11:7 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX for the Canaanites
  2. Zechariah 11:7 Or Grace
  3. Zechariah 11:7 Or Unity
  4. Zechariah 11:8 Or destroyed, lit. cut off

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