44. Truly I tell you, he will set him in charge over all his possessions.
45. But if that servant says in his heart, My master is late in coming, and begins to strike the menservants and the maids and to eat and drink and get drunk,
46. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour of which he does not know, and will punish him and cut him off and assign his lot with the unfaithful.
47. And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act as he would wish him to act shall be beaten with many [lashes].
48. But he who did not know and did things worthy of a beating shall be beaten with few [lashes]. For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required; and of him to whom men entrust much, they will require and demand all the more. [Num. 15:29, 30; Deut. 25:2, 3.]
49. I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish that it were already kindled!
50. I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and how greatly and sorely I am urged on (impelled, constrained) until it is accomplished!
51. Do you suppose that I have come to give peace upon earth? No, I say to you, but rather division;
52. For from now on in one house there will be five divided [among themselves], three against two and two against three.
53. They will be divided, father 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. [Mic. 7:6.]
54. He also said to the crowds of people, When you see a cloud rising in the west, at once you say, It is going to rain! And so it does.