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Luke 12:49-53
“ I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.For from now on, there will be five in one house 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 her 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
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said,“ It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.For so has the Lord commanded us, saying,‘ I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’”As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.The Lord’s word was spread abroad throughout all the region.But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
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Acts 14:4
But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
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John 7:40-52
Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said,“ This is truly the prophet.”Others said,“ This is the Christ.” But some said,“ What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”So a division arose in the multitude because of him.Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them,“ Why didn’t you bring him?”The officers answered,“ No man ever spoke like this man!”The Pharisees therefore answered them,“ You aren’t also led astray, are you?Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”Nicodemus( he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,“ Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”They answered him,“ Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
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Acts 14:2
But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
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Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.
