Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

Not Peace, but Division

“I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled!

but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—

And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.