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.
54 Jesus said to all the people:As soon as you see a cloud coming up in the west, you say, “It's going to rain,” and it does.
55 When the south wind blows, you say, “It's going to get hot,” and it does.
56 Are you trying to fool someone? You can predict the weather by looking at the earth and sky, but you don't really know what's going on right now.