12:51 Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 1 12:52 For from now on 2 there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three.
1 tn Or “hostility.” This term pictures dissension and hostility (BDAG 234 s.v. διαμερισμός).
2 snFrom now on is a popular phrase in Luke: 1:48; 5:10; 22:18, 69; see Mic 7:6.