Luke 12:49 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁴⁹ "I came to cast fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁹ I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁹ I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish that it were already kindled!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁹ I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if it is already kindled?

Common English Bible

⁴⁹ “I came to cast fire upon the earth. How I wish that it was already ablaze!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁹ I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁹ I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled?

Luke 12:49 Cross References

Luke 12:48

But he who did not know, yet did things worthy of [blows], shall be beaten [with] few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be demanded; and to whom much has been entrusted, of him they will ask much more.

Luke 12:50

But I have a baptism to be baptized [with], and how distressed I am till it is completed!

John 9:4

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.