50But there is a baptism which I have to undergo; and how am I kept back till it is complete!
51Is it your opinion that I have come to give peace on earth? I say to you, No, but division:
52For from this time, a family of five in one house will be on opposite sides, three against two and two against three.
53They will be at war, the father against his son, and the son against his father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.
54Then he said to the people, When you see a cloud coming up in the west, straight away you say, There will be rain; and so it is.
55And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, There will be heat; and so it is.
56O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?