Do you think that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.

For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three.

but He shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth; and He shall smite the earth with the word of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He destroy the ungodly one.

And I will show wonders in heaven, and upon the earth, blood, and fire, and vapors of smoke.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

And who will abide the day of His coming? Or who will withstand at His appearing? For He is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers.

He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.

For behold, a day comes burning as an oven, and it shall consume them; and all the aliens, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, says the Lord Almighty, and there shall not be left of them root or branch.

But even now, the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His threshing floor, and He will gather His wheat into the barn; but the chaff He will burn up with unquenchable fire."

And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be dreadfully hostile, and to cross-examine Him about many things,

lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something He might say, so that they might accuse Him.

On that very day some Pharisees came, saying to Him, "Get out and go from here, for Herod wants to kill You."

Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it is not possible [for] a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

And some of the Pharisees said to Him from the crowd, "Teacher, rebuke Your disciples."

But He answered and said to them, "I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out."

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.

The disciples said to Him, "Rabbi, [just] now the Jews were seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?"

But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Therefore the crowd which was with Him when He called Lazarus out of his tomb and raised him from the dead, was testifying.

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "You see that you are not doing any good. Look, the world has gone after Him!"