Matthew 10
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Commissioning the Twelve
1Summoning his twelve disciples,#Mk 3:13–19; 6:13–16 he gave them authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out and to heal every#10:1 Or every kind of disease and sickness.#10:1 Or physical ailment#Mt 9:35; Mk 6:7; Lk 9:1 2These are the names of the twelve apostles:#Mt 4:18,21; 16:18; Jn 1:42 First, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;#10:3 Other mss read and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus 4Simon the Zealot,#10:4 Lit the Cananaean and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.#Mt 26:14; Lk 22:3; Jn 6:71; 13:2,26
5Jesus sent out these twelve after giving them instructions: “Don’t take the road that leads to the Gentiles, and don’t enter any Samaritan#2Kg 17:24; Lk 9:52; 17:16; Jn 4:9; Ac 8:25 town. 6Instead, go to the lost sheep#Ps 119:36; Is 53:6; Jr 50:6; Mt 9:36; 18:12 of the house of Israel.#Ac 2:36; 7:42; Heb 8:8,10 7As you go, proclaim, ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’#Mt 3:2–3; 4:17; Lk 10:9 8Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those with leprosy,#10:8 Gk lepros; a term for various skin diseases; see Lv 13–14 drive out demons.#Mk 3:15; Rv 9:20; 18:2 Freely you received, freely give. 9Don’t acquire gold, silver, or copper for your money-belts.#Mk 6:6–8; Lk 9:3–5; 10:4–12 10Don’t take a traveling bag for the road, or an extra shirt, sandals, or a staff, for the worker#Lk 10:7; 1Co 9:14; 1Tm 5:18 is worthy of his food. 11When you enter any town or village, find out who is worthy, and stay there until you leave. 12Greet a household when you enter it,#1Sm 25:6; 1Ch 12:18; Ps 122:7–8 13and if the household is worthy, let your peace be on it; but if it is unworthy, let your peace return to you.#Ps 35:13; Mt 8:8; Ac 16:15 14If anyone does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet#Neh 5:13; Lk 10:11; Ac 13:51 when you leave that house or town. 15Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment#Mt 12:36; Ac 17:31; Heb 10:25; 2Pt 2:9; 1Jn 4:17 for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.#Mt 11:22,24; 2Pt 2:6; Jd 6–7
Persecutions Predicted
16 “Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves. #
Gn 3:1; Lk 10:3; Rm 16:19; Php 2:15 17Beware of them, because they will hand you over to local courts#10:17 Or sanhedrins and flog you in their synagogues.#Mk 13:9,11; Lk 12:11–12; Ac 5:40; 26:11 18You will even be brought before governors and kings because of me, to bear witness to them and to the Gentiles.#Mt 28:19; Rm 1:5; Gl 1:16 19But when they hand you over, don’t worry about how or what you are to speak.#Ex 4:12; Nm 23:5; Dt 18:18; Mt 6:25 For you will be given what to say at that hour, 20because it isn’t you speaking, but the Spirit#Ps 51:11; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:4; Rm 8:9; Gl 5:25; Ti 3:5 of your Father is speaking through you.#Lk 12:12; Ac 4:8; 13:9; 2Co 13:3
21 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. #
Mc 7:6; Mt 10:35–36; Mk 13:12 22You will be hated by everyone because of my name.#Mt 24:9; Lk 21:17; Jn 15:18 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.#Mt 24:13; Mk 13:13; Jn 12:12–13 23When they persecute you in one town, flee to another.#Mt 12:15; Ac 8:1; 9:25; 14:6; 17:10 For truly I tell you, you will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. 24A disciple#10:24 Or student is not above his teacher, or a slave above his master.#Lk 6:40; Jn 13:16; 15:20 25It is enough for a disciple to become like his teacher and a slave like his master. If they called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more the members of his household!#2Kg 1:2; Mt 12:24,27; Mk 3:22; Lk 11:15,18–19
Fear God
26 “Therefore, #
Lk 12:2–9
don’t be afraid of them, since there is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered and nothing hidden that won’t be made known.#Mk 4:22; Lk 8:17; 12:2 27What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light. What you hear in a whisper,#10:27 Lit in the ear proclaim on the housetops.#Mt 24:17; Lk 5:19; 12:3; Ac 5:20 28Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; #Is 8:12–13; 51:12–13; Jr 1:8; 1Pt 3:14 rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.#Mt 5:22; Lk 12:5; Heb 10:31; Jms 4:12 29Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny?#10:29 Gk assarion, a small copper coin Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s#Mt 5:16; 11:27; Lk 11:13; Jn 8:42 consent.#10:29 Lit ground apart from your Father 30But even the hairs of your head have all been counted.#1Sm 14:45; 2Sm 14:11; Lk 21:18; Ac 27:34 31So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.#Mt 6:26; 12:12
Acknowledging Christ
32 “Therefore, everyone who will acknowledge me before others, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. #
Lk 12:8; Rm 10:9–10; Rv 3:5 33But whoever denies me before others,#Mk 8:38; Lk 9:26; 2Tm 2:12; 2Pt 2:1 I will also deny him before my Father in heaven. 34Don’t assume that I came to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.#Lk 12:51–53 35For I came to turn
a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
36 and a man’s enemies will be
the members of his household. # 10:35–36 Mc 7:6 #
Ps 41:9; 55:12–13; Mc 7:6; Jn 13:18
37 The one who loves a father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; #
Lk 14:25–27
the one who loves a son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38And whoever doesn’t take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Anyone who finds his life will lose it,#Mt 16:25; Mk 8:35; Lk 9:24; 17:33; Jn 12:25 and anyone who loses his life because of me will find it.#Mt 9:9; Jn 8:12; 12:26; 21:19
A Cup of Cold Water
40 “The one who welcomes you welcomes me, #
Mt 18:5; Lk 10:16; Jn 13:20; Gl 4:14 and the one who welcomes me welcomes him who sent me.#Mk 9:37; Lk 9:48; Jn 12:44 41Anyone who welcomes a prophet#1Kg 17:10–15; 18:4; 2Kg 4:8; 3Jn 5–8 because he is a prophet#10:41 Lit prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. And anyone who welcomes a righteous person because he’s righteous#10:41 Lit person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. 42And whoever gives#Mt 25:40; Mk 9:41; Heb 6:10 even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple,#10:42 Lit little ones in the name of a disciple#Mt 28:19; Lk 14:26; Jn 8:31; 13:35; 15:8; Ac 6:1 truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
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Matthew 10
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(We have not yet translated 10:1-23. You can read those stories and most of those messages in Mark 3:13-19; 6:7-13; 13:9-13.)
Don’t be frightened of people that will hurt you because you follow Jesus
24-25Jesus told his followers, “You know about students and teachers. The teacher is more important than any of the students. The students have to learn to be like their teacher. And I am your teacher, so you have to learn to be like me.#Matthew 9:34; 12:24; Mark 3:22; Luke 6:40; 11:15; John 13:16; 15:20
And you know about workers and their boss. The boss is more important than any of the workers. The workers have to learn to be like their boss. And I am your boss, so you have to learn to be like me.
People will treat you the same way as they treat me. I am your leader, and they lie about me. They call me the boss over the bad spirits. And you are my followers, so they will say bad things about you too, more than they say about me. 26But don’t be frightened of them. You see, people might do things secretly now, but later God will let everyone know what they do. People hide things now, but later God will show them to everybody.#Mark 4:22; Luke 8:17
27And think about the message I tell you now. Sometimes I tell you something when nobody else is here. I might even just say it quietly in your ear. But later on, I want you to tell my message to everyone in the world. If you can, get up on a high place, and shout my words out loud, for lots of people to hear.
28Don’t be frightened of those people that can only kill your body. They can’t kill your soul. But you have to listen to God. If you don’t do what he says, you have to be frightened. He can finish up your body, and then he can also finish up your soul too, in that bad place called hell.
29Think about those little birds called sparrows. They don’t cost very much. You can buy them for a few dollars. But God remembers each one of them anyway. And if one of them falls down to the ground, God knows about it. 30-31Well, you are more important to God than a big mob of those birds, so don’t be frightened. He knows you properly. He even knows how many hairs you have on your head. So he will only let things happen to you that will be good for you.”
Follow Jesus properly
32Jesus said, “If you tell everyone that you are one of my followers, I will tell God, my father in heaven, that you are one of my followers. 33But if you tell everyone that you are not one of my followers, I will tell God, my father in heaven, that I don’t know you, and I will tell him that you are not one of my followers.#2 Timothy 2:12
34Don’t think that I came into the world to get everyone to agree with each other. No. People will not agree about me, and some people will fight the people that they don’t agree with. It will be like this,
35-36Maybe your own family will not want me, and they will turn against you and be your enemies.
A man will be the enemy of his father.
A daughter will be the enemy of her mother.
A woman will be the enemy of her mother-in-law.#Micah 7:6
37You see, you have to love me more than you love your own father and mother. Then it is all right for you to be my follower. And you have to love me more than you love your own son or daughter. Then it is all right for you to be my follower. If you don’t love me like that, you are not the right person to be my follower. 38If you want to follow me properly, you have to stop thinking only about yourself. You have to live like me. You have to be ready to die, yes, to die like a criminal on a cross, just like me.#Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23 39If you only want to look after your own life here on earth, you will lose it. You will not live with me for ever. But if you are ready to give up your life here, then you will find real life, and you will live with me for ever.”#Matthew 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; 17:33; John 12:25
(We have not yet translated 10:40-42. You can read some of those messages in Mark 8:34-35; 9:37, 41.)
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