The Good News According to Matthew, Chapter 10
{10:1} He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them
authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every
disease and every sickness. {10:2} Now the names of the twelve
emissaries are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew,
his brother; Jacob the son of Zebedee; Yochanan, his brother; {10:3}
Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; Jacob the son
of Halfai; [1>]Labbai, whose surname was[<1] Taddai; {10:4} Simon the
Canaanite; and Judah Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
{10:5} Yeshua sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying,
"Don't go among the Gentiles, and don't enter into any city of the
Samaritans. {10:6} Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel. {10:7} As you go, proclaim, saying, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is
at hand!' {10:8} Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers[2], and cast out
demons. Freely you received, so freely give. {10:9} Don't take any
gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts. {10:10} Take no bag
for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the
laborer is worthy of his food. {10:11} Into whatever city or village
you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go
on. {10:12} As you enter into the household, greet it. {10:13} If the
household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn't
worthy, let your peace return to you. {10:14} Whoever doesn't receive
you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city,
shake off the dust from your feet. {10:15} Most certainly I tell you,
it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the
day of judgment than for that city.
{10:16} "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.
Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. {10:17} But
beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their
synagogues they will scourge you. {10:18} Yes, and you will be brought
before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to
the nations. {10:19} But when they deliver you up, don't be anxious
how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what
you will say. {10:20} For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of
your Father who speaks in you.
{10:21} "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father
his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be
put to death. {10:22} You will be hated by all men for my name's sake,
but he who endures to the end will be saved. {10:23} But when they
persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I
tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until
the Son of Man has come.
{10:24} "A disciple is not above his rabbi, nor a servant above his
lord. {10:25} It is enough for the disciple that he be like his rabbi,
and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the
house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household! {10:26}
Therefore don't be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that
will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known. {10:27} What
I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear
whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops. {10:28} Don't be
afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.
Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in
[3>]Gehinnom.[<3]
{10:29} "Aren't two sparrows sold for an [4>]assarion coin[<4]? Not
one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will, {10:30}
but the very hairs of your head are all numbered. {10:31} Therefore
don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. {10:32}
Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also
confess before my Father who is in heaven. {10:33} But whoever denies
me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
{10:34} "Don't think that I came to send peace on the earth. I
didn't come to send peace, but a sword. {10:35} For I came to set a
man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. {10:36} A man's foes will
be those of his own household.[5] {10:37} He who loves father or
mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or
daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. {10:38} He who doesn't take
his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me. {10:39} He who
seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake
will find it. {10:40} He who receives you receives me, and he who
receives me receives him who sent me. {10:41} He who receives a
prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward. He
who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will
receive a righteous man's reward. {10:42} Whoever gives one of these
little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a
disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."
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Footnotes:
[1] {10:3} NU omits "Labbai, whose surname was"
[2] {10:8} TR adds ", raise the dead"
[3] {10:28} or, Hell.
[4] {10:29} An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or
a sixteenth of a denarius. An assarion is approximately the wages of
one half hour of agricultural labor.
[5] {10:36} Micah 7:6
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