Luke 12:51 meaning and explanation

Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.

Luke 12:51, Berean Standard Bible

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Jesus is speaking to His disciples and the surrounding crowd, warning them that His coming will not produce the calm they might expect. The word He uses for division, diamerismos, means a splitting apart.

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