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16 Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world. 2They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war. 3 For there will be five in a house: there'll be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, 4and they will stand alone." [Complete Gospels]

(2a) 2Q: Luke 12:51-53 = Matt 10:34-36

12:51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 12:52 From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; 12:53 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."

= Matt 10:34-36
10:34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 10:35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; 10:36 and one's foes will be members of one's own household.

John Dominic Crossan

IQP

The International Q Project reconstructs the original Q saying as follows:

[Do you] think that I have come to hurl peace on earth?
I did not come to hurl peace, but a sword!
For I have come to divide son against father,
[and] daughter and her mother,
[and] daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.