Matthew 10:34
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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.
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Luke 12:49-53
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Christ Brings Division(A)
49 (B)“I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But (C)I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is (D)accomplished! 51 (E)Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, (F)but rather division. 52 (G)For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three. 53 (H)Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
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Acts 13:45-50
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45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they (A)opposed the things spoken by Paul. 46 Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, (B)“It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first; but (C)since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, (D)we turn to the Gentiles. 47 For so the Lord has commanded us:
(E)‘I have set you as a light to the Gentiles,
That you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”
48 Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. (F)And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.
49 And the word of the Lord was being spread throughout all the region. 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, (G)raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region.
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Acts 14:4
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4 But the multitude of the city was (A)divided: part sided with the Jews, and part with the (B)apostles.
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Acts 14:2
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2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and [a]poisoned their [b]minds against the brethren.
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John 7:40-52
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Who Is He?
40 Therefore [a]many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is (A)the Prophet.” 41 Others said, “This is (B)the Christ.”
But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee? 42 (C)Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, (D)where David was?” 43 So (E)there was a division among the people because of Him. 44 Now (F)some of them wanted to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
Rejected by the Authorities
45 Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”
46 The officers answered, (G)“No man ever spoke like this Man!”
47 Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived? 48 Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? 49 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”
50 Nicodemus (H)(he who came to [b]Jesus [c]by night, being one of them) said to them, 51 (I)“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”
52 They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for (J)no prophet [d]has arisen out of Galilee.”
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Jeremiah 15:10
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Jeremiah’s Dejection
10 (A)Woe is me, my mother,
That you have borne me,
A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole [a]earth!
I have neither lent for interest,
Nor have men lent to me for interest.
Every one of them curses me.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 15:10 Or land
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