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52 aFor from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three.  
53 aFather will be divided 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 her mother-in-law.”  

Discern the Time

54 Then He also said to the multitudes, a“Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming’; and so it is.  
55 And when you see the asouth wind blow, you say, ‘There will be hot weather’; and there is.  
56 Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern athis time?  

Make Peace with Your Adversary

57 “Yes, and why, even of yourselves, do you not judge what is right?
58 aWhen you go with your adversary to the magistrate, make every effort balong the way to settle with him, lest he drag you to the judge, the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.  
59 I tell you, you shall not depart from there till you have paid the very last mite.”
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Luke 12:54

To the multitudes also (kai toiv oxloiv). After the strong and stirring words just before with flash and force Jesus turns finally in this series of discourses to the multitudes again as in verse Luke 12:15. There are similar sayings to these verses Luke 12:54-59 in Matthew 16:1 f; Matthew 5:25 f. There is a good deal of difference in phraseology whether that is due to difference of source or different use of the same source (Q or Logia) we do not know. Not all the old MSS. give Matthew 16:2-3. In Matthew the Pharisees and Sadducees were asking for a sign from heaven as they often did. These signs of the weather, "a shower" (ombrov, Luke 12:54) due to clouds in the west, "a hot wave" (kauswn, verse 55) due to a south wind (noton) blowing, "fair weather" (eudia, Matthew 16:2) when the sky is red, are appealed to today. They have a more or less general application due to atmospheric and climatic conditions.




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