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Judas Iscariot the one who also betrayed him. Jesus sent these twelve forth given
authority to them and saying “Do not go the places of Gentiles nor enter
a city of Samaritans. Rather go to the lost sheep of the
house of Israel. And going proclaim saying “The kingdom
of the heavens has drawn near. Heal
those who are sick. Raise the
dead. Cleanse the lepers. Expel demons. Freely you have received. Give freely. Do not carry gold nor silver nor grass
in your girdles nor a wallet for the way nor two tunics nor sandals nor a
staff. The workman is worthy of
his food. Into whatever city or
village you may enter, inquire who in it is worthy. Then remain until you are ready to go
out. Entering into the house greet
those there. If indeed the house
is worthy let your peace come upon it.
But if it is not worthy your peace will return to you. Whoever does not receive you nor hear
your words, going outside the house or that city, shake off the dust from
your feet. Truly I tell you it
will be more tolerable for the land
of Sodom and
Gomorra in the day of judgment than for that city. Behold I send you forth like sheep in
the midst of wolves. Be therefore
prudent as serpents and as harmless as doves. And beware of men for they will
deliver you up to councils and in their synagogues they will scourge you. And you will be led before leaders and
kings for my sake and as a testimony to them and to the nations
(Gentiles). But when they deliver
you up do not be anxious as to how or what you may say for it will be
given to you in that hour what you may say. For it is not you who are speaking but
the Spirit of your Father who is speaking in you. And brother will deliver up brother to
death and a father their child. And children will stand up against their
parents and put them to death. And
you will be hated by all people on account of my name. But the one enduring to the end. This one will be saved. But when they persecute you in this
city, flee to another. For truly I
tell you you will by no means have completed the cities of Israel
before the Son of man comes. Nor
is a disciple above his teacher nor a slave above
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his lord. Enough for the
disciple that he be as his teacher and the slave as his lord. If they called the housemaster
Beelzebub how much more (will they give names to) the members of his
household. Therefore do not fear
them for nothing has been veiled which will not be unveiled and hidden
which will not be made known. What
I say to you in the darkness you are to say in the light. And what you hear in your ear proclaim
on the housetops. And do not fear
those who kill the body, but who cannot kill the soul. Rather fear whoever is able to destroy
both the body and soul in Gehenna.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing. Yet one of them will not fall on the
earth without your Father allowing it.
But for you, even the hairs of your head have all been
numbered. Therefore do not fear. It would take many sparrows to
out-value you. Everyone therefore
who shall confess me (Jesus) before people, I will also confess to
knowing him before my father in the heavens. And whoever denies me before men, I
also will deny him before my Father in the heavens. Do not suppose I came to bring peace on
the earth. I came, not to bring peace but sword. For I came to make a man hostile
against his father and a daughter against her mother and a bride against
her mother-in-law. (I have come
to make) the members of a man’s household his enemies. The one who loves is father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me.
And the lone loving son or daughter more than me is not worthy of
me. The one who does not take his
cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. The one finding his life will lose it
and the one who loses his life for my sake will find it. The one receiving you also receives me
and the one who receives me also receives the one who has sent me. The one receiving a prophet in the name
of a prophet will receive the
reward of a prophet. And the one
receiving a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive the
reward of a righteous man. And
whoever gives one of these little ones a cup of cold water, if only in
the name of a disciple, will I tell you on no account lose his reward.
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