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Luke 12:49

Context
NETBible

“I have come 1  to bring 2  fire on the earth – and how I wish it were already kindled!

XREF

Isa 11:4; Joe 2:30,31; Mal 3:2,3; Mal 4:1; Mt 3:10-12; Lu 11:53,54; Lu 12:51,52; Lu 13:31-33; Lu 19:39,40; Joh 9:4; Joh 11:8-10; Joh 12:17-19

NET © Notes

sn This mission statement, “I have come to bring fire on the earth,” looks to the purging and division Jesus causes: See Luke 3:9, 17; 9:54; 17:29 for fire, 5:32; 7:34; 9:58; 12:51 for the topic of mission.

tn Grk “cast.” For βάλλω (ballw) in the sense of causing a state or condition, see L&N 13.14.



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