47 If servants are not ready or willing to do what their master wants them to do, they will be beaten hard.
48 But servants who don't know what their master wants them to do will not be beaten so hard for doing wrong. If God has been generous with you, he will expect you to serve him well. But if he has been more than generous, he will expect you to serve him even better.
49 I came to set fire to the earth, and I wish it were already on fire!
50 I am going to be put to a hard test. And I will have to suffer a lot of pain until it is over.
51 Do you think that I came to bring peace to earth? No indeed! I came to make people choose sides.
52 A family of five will be divided, with two of them against the other three.
53 Fathers and sons will turn against one another, and mothers and daughters will do the same. Mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law will also turn against each other.