Catholic Public Domain Version
"I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled? "
— Luke 12:49, Catholic Public Domain Version
“I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?”
“I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if it is already kindled? ”
“"I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.”
“Not Peace, but Division“I have come to bring fire on the earth– and how I wish it were already kindled!”
“I am come to cast fire on the earth. And what will I, but that it be kindled?”
“I came to send a fire on the earth, and it may even now have been lighted.”
“I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?”
then the Lord of that servant will return on a day which he hoped not, and at an hour which he knew not. And he will separate him, and he will place his portion with that of the unfaithful.
And that servant, who knew the will of his Lord, and who did not prepare and did not act according to his will, will be beaten many times over.
Yet he who did not know, and who acted in a way that deserves a beating, will be beaten fewer times. So then, of all to whom much has been given, much will be required. And of those to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be asked.
I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled?
And I have a baptism, with which I am to be baptized. And how I am constrained, even until it may be accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.
For from this time on, there will be five in one house: divided as three against two, and as two against three.