45. But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
46. that slave’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
47. And that slave who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it will be severely beaten.
48. But the one who did not know and did things deserving of blows will be beaten lightly. Much will be required of everyone who has been given much. And even more will be expected of the one who has been entrusted with more.
49. “I came to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already set ablaze!
50. But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how it consumes Me until it is finished!
51. Do you think that I came here to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!
52. From now on, five in one household will be divided: three against two, and two against three.
53. They will be divided, father against son,son against father,mother against daughter,daughter against mother,mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law,and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
54. He also said to the crowds: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, right away you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it does.