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Luke 12:50-55 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

50. There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!

51. Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

52. From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three;

53. a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

54. He also said to the crowds, “When you see [a] cloud rising in the west you say immediately that it is going to rain—and so it does;

55. and when you notice that the wind is blowing from the south you say that it is going to be hot—and so it is.

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