Luke 12:51

Weymouth New Testament

Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? No, I tell you that I came to bring dissension.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Do you think that I came here to bring peace on the earth?

King James Version (1611)
Suppose yee that I am come to giue peace on earth? I tell you, Nay, but rather diuision.

King James Version
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

English Standard Version
Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

New American Standard Bible
"Do you think that I came to provide peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division;

New Century Version
Do you think I came to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, I came to divide it.

Amplified Bible
"Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division [between believers and unbelievers];

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division;

Legacy Standard Bible
Do you think that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division;

Berean Standard Bible
Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.

Contemporary English Version
Do you think that I came to bring peace to earth? No indeed! I came to make people choose sides.

Complete Jewish Bible
Do you think that I have come to bring peace in the Land? Not peace, I tell you, but division!

Darby Translation
Think ye that I have come to give peace in the earth? Nay, I say to you, but rather division:

Easy-to-Read Version
Do you think I came to give peace to the world? No, I came to divide the world!

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thinke ye that I am come to giue peace on earth? I tell you, nay, but rather debate.

George Lamsa Translation
Do you think that I have come to bring peace on earth? I say to you, No, but divisions;

Good News Translation
Do you suppose that I came to bring peace to the world? No, not peace, but division.

Lexham English Bible
Do you think that I have come to grant peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

Literal Translation
Do you think that I came to give peace in the earth? No, I say to you, But rather division.

American Standard Version
Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

Bible in Basic English
Is it your opinion that I have come to give peace on earth? I say to you, No, but division:

Hebrew Names Version
Do you think that I have come to give shalom in the eretz? I tell you, no, but rather division.

International Standard Version
"Do you think that I came to bring peace on earth? Not at all, I tell you, but rather division!Micah 7:6; Matthew 10:34; Luke 12:49; John 7:43; 9:16; 10:19;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Suppose you that peace I have come to send forth on the earth ? I tell you, not (peace), but divisions.

Murdock Translation
Suppose ye, that I have come to produce tranquillity on the earth? I tell you, No: but division.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Suppose ye that I am come to sende peace on earth? I tell you naye, but rather deuision.

English Revised Version
Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

World English Bible
Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Suppose ye that I am come to send peace upon earth? I tell you, Nay, but rather division.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Wene ye, that Y cam to yyue pees in to erthe? Nay, Y say to you, but departyng.

Update Bible Version
Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, No; but rather division:

Webster's Bible Translation
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, No; but rather division:

New English Translation
Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

New King James Version
Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.

New Living Translation
Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other!

New Life Bible
Do you think I came to bring peace on the earth? I tell you, no! I came to divide.

New Revised Standard
Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Suppose ye, that, peace, I am come to give in the earth? Nay, I tell you, but rather division.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.

Revised Standard Version
Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Suppose ye that I am come to sende peace on erth? I tell you naye: but rather debate.

Young's Literal Translation
`Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thynke ye, that I am come to brynge peace vpon earth? I tell you nay, but rather debate.

Mace New Testament (1729)
do you imagine that my coming will produce peace on the earth? I tell you, no; but rather division.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Did you think that I came to bring peace? No, I have come to split the herd and reveal people's true hearts.

Contextual Overview

⁴¹ "Master," said Peter, "are you addressing this parable to us, or to all alike?" ⁴² "Who, then," replied the Lord, "is the faithful and intelligent steward whom his Master will put in charge of His household to serve out their rations at the proper times? ⁴³ Blessed is that servant whom his Master when He comes shall find so doing. ⁴⁴ I tell you truly that He will put him in authority over all His possessions. ⁴⁵ But if that servant should say in his heart, `My Master is a long time in coming,' and should begin to beat the menservants and the maids, and to eat and drink, drinking even to excess; ⁴⁶ that servant's Master will come on a day when he is not expecting Him and at an hour that he knows not of, and will punish him severely, and make him share the lot of the unfaithful. ⁴⁷ And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes. ⁴⁸ But he who had not been told it and yet did what deserved the scourge, will receive but few lashes. To whomsoever much has been given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been entrusted, of him a larger amount will be demanded. ⁴⁹ "I came to throw fire upon the earth, and what is my desire? Oh that it were even now kindled! ⁵⁰ But I have a baptism to undergo; and how am I pent up till it is accomplished!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 12:49, Zechariah 11:7, Zechariah 11:8, Zechariah 11:10, Zechariah 11:11, Zechariah 11:14, Matthew 10:34-36, Matthew 24:7-10

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 1:6 - my mother's Matthew 10:21 - the brother shall Luke 21:31 - when John 7:43 - General John 10:19 - General Acts 14:4 - the multitude Acts 17:13 - stirred Acts 19:9 - he departed Acts 28:29 - great reasoning

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?.... To set up a temporal kingdom, in great pomp, and outward peace and tranquility? Christ came to make peace with God for men, and to give the Gospel of peace, and spiritual and eternal peace to men; but not external peace, especially that, which is not consistent with the preservation of truth:

I tell you, nay; whatever suppositions you have made, or whatever notions you have entertained, I solemnly affirm, and you may depend upon it, I am not come into the world on any such account, as to establish outward peace among men;

but rather division; so he calls the Gospel, which in Matthew is styled a "sword"; and the Ethiopic version seems to have read both here, since it renders it, "but a sword that I may divide": the Gospel is the sword of the Spirit, which divides asunder soul and Spirit, and separates a man from his former principles and practices; and sets men apart from one another, even the nearest relations, at the greatest distance; and is, through the sin of man, the occasion of great contention, discord, and division.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 10:34-36.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 51. To give peace — See Matthew 10:34.