Synopsis of the Gospels
Compare similar Bible verses (New International Reader’s Version):
Matthew 10
34 ‘Do not think that I came to bring peace to the earth. I didn’t come to bring peace. I came to bring a sword.
35 I have come to turn ‘ “sons against their fathers. Daughters will refuse to obey their mothers. Daughters-in-law will be against their mothers-in-law.
36 A man’s enemies will be the members of his own family.”
Luke 12
Jesus will separate people from one another
49 ‘I have come to bring fire on the earth. How I wish the fire had already started!
50 But I have a baptism of suffering to go through. And I must go through it.
51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you. I have come to separate people.
52 From now on there will be five members in a family, each one against the other. There will be three against two and two against three.
53 They will be separated. Father will turn against son and son against father. Mother will turn against daughter and daughter against mother. Mother-in-law will turn against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’