Be ready! Are we active daily anticipating what is required of us?

I have read this so many times and have never noticed v48. The one who did not know and deserved a beating will receive a light beating — in contrast to v47. What is the non metaphorical expression of that, I wonder

Jesus says he has not come to bring peace. Households will be divided over him

We have the benefit of 2000 years of processing Jesus. I keep putting myself in these pages and hoping I would get it if I were there. I’m sympathetic to the hearers too though. Some of what he says is not easy to understand.