Luke 12:49 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁴⁹ I have come to bring fire down to the earth, and how I wish it were kindled already!

¹⁰ But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire. ¹¹ I am baptizing you in water in token of your repentance, but he who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry his shoes. He will baptize you in the holy Spirit and in fire. ¹² His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean up his threshing-floor, and store his wheat in his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with inextinguishable fire."

⁵³ After he left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to watch him closely and to try to draw him out on many subjects, ⁵⁴ plotting to entrap him in something he might say.

⁵¹ Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? Not peace, I tell you, but discord! ⁵² For from now on if there are five people in a house they will be divided three against two and two against three.

³¹ Just then some Pharisees came up and said to him, "Go! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!" ³² He said to them, "Go and say to that fox, 'Here I am, driving out demons and performing cures, today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will be through. ³³ But I must go on today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not right for a prophet to die outside Jerusalem.'

³⁹ Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Master, reprove your disciples!" ⁴⁰ And he answered, "I tell you, if they keep silence, the stones will cry out!"

⁴ We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

⁸ The disciples said to him, "Master, the Jews have just been trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?" ⁹ Jesus answered, "Is not the day twelve hours long? If a man travels by day he will not stumble, for he can see the light of this world; ¹⁰ but if he travels at night he will stumble because he has no light."

¹⁷ The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was telling about it. ¹⁸ That was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard that he had showed that sign. ¹⁹ So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot do anything! The whole world has run after him!"