I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
Luke 12:49-53
Obviously this can’t happen if He never said anything controversial.
HOWEVER... what sometimes gets forgotten is that He always took audience into account; therefore prostitutes did not hear what Pharisees did.
Luke 12 is heavy duty. It’s actually overwhelming in it’s bluntness.
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Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword.