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Luke 12:49-53
“ I have come to cast fire upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled!But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!Do you think that I came to provide peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division;for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother in law against daughter in law and daughter in law against mother in law.”
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Acts 13:45-50
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were blaspheming.Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said,“ It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you repudiate it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.For so the Lord has commanded us,‘ I have appointed You as a light to the Gentiles, That You may bring salvation to the end of the earth.’ ”When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.And the word of the Lord was being spread through the whole region.But the Jews incited the devout women of prominence and the leading men of the city, and instigated a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their region.
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Acts 14:4
But the people of the city were divided; and some sided with the Jews, while others, with the apostles.
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John 7:40-52
Some of the people therefore, after they heard these words, were saying,“ This truly is the Prophet.”Others were saying,“ This is the Christ.” But others were saying,“ Surely the Christ is not coming from Galilee, is He?Has the Scripture not said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”So a dissension occurred in the crowd because of Him.And some of them wanted to arrest Him, but no one laid hands on Him.The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them,“ Why did you not bring Him?”The officers answered,“ Never has a man spoken in this way!”The Pharisees then replied to them,“ You have not been led astray too, have you?Not one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?But this crowd that does not know the Law is accursed!”Nicodemus( the one who came to Him before, being one of them)* said to them,“ Our Law does not judge the person unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”They answered and said to him,“ You are not from Galilee as well, are you? Examine the Scriptures, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.”
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Acts 14:2
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the minds of the Gentiles and embittered them against the brothers.
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Jeremiah 15:10
Woe to me, my mother, that you have given birth to me As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land! I have not lent, nor have people lent money to me, Yet everyone curses me.
