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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1 AND JESUS summoned to Him His twelve disciples and gave them power and authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out, and to cure all kinds of disease and all kinds of weakness and infirmity.
2 Now these are the names of the twelve apostles (special messengers): first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
3 Philip and Bartholomew [Nathaniel]; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus [Judas, not Iscariot];
4 Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.
5 Jesus sent out these twelve, charging them, Go nowhere among the Gentiles and do not go into any town of the Samaritans;
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand!
8 Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Freely (without pay) you have received, freely (without charge) give.
9 Take no gold nor silver nor [even] copper money in your purses (belts);
10 And do not take a provision bag or a wallet for a collection bag for your journey, nor two undergarments, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the workman deserves his support (his living, his food).
11 And into whatever town or village you go, inquire who in it is deserving, and stay there [at his house] until you leave [that vicinity].
12 As you go into the house, give your greetings and wish it well.
13 Then if indeed that house is deserving, let come upon it your peace [that is, freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin]. But if it is not deserving, let your peace return to you.
14 And whoever will not receive and accept and welcome you nor listen to your message, as you leave that house or town, shake the dust [of it] from your feet.
15 Truly I tell you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
16 Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves; be wary and wise as serpents, and be innocent (harmless, guileless, and without falsity) as doves. [Gen. 3:1.]
17 Be on guard against men [whose way or nature is to act in opposition to God]; for they will deliver you up to councils and flog you in their synagogues,
18 And you will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a witness to bear testimony before them and to the Gentiles (the nations).
19 But when they deliver you up, do not be anxious about how or what you are to speak; for what you are to say will be given you in that very hour and moment,
20 For it is not you who are speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
21 Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will take a stand against their parents and will have them put to death.
22 And you will be hated by all for My name's sake, but he who perseveres and endures to the end will be saved [from spiritual disease and death in the world to come].
23 When they persecute you in one town [that is, pursue you in a manner that would injure you and cause you to suffer because of your belief], flee to another town; for truly I tell you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
24 A disciple is not above his teacher, nor is a servant or slave above his master.
25 It is sufficient for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant or slave like his master. If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub [master of the dwelling], how much more will they speak evil of those of His household. [II Kings 1:2.]
26 So have no fear of them; for nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, or kept secret that will not become known.
27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops.
28 And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but rather be afraid of Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell (Gehenna).
29 Are not two little sparrows sold for a penny? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's leave (consent) and notice.
30 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 Fear not, then; you are of more value than many sparrows.
32 Therefore, everyone who acknowledges Me before men and confesses Me [out of a state of oneness with Me], I will also acknowledge him before My Father Who is in heaven and confess [that I am abiding in] him.
33 But whoever denies and disowns Me before men, I also will deny and disown him before My Father Who is in heaven.
34 Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35 For I have come to part asunder a man from his father, and a daughter from her mother, and a newly married wife from her mother-in-law–
36 And a man's foes will be they of his own household. [Mic. 7:6.]
37 He who loves [and takes more pleasure in] father or mother more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves [and takes more pleasure in] son or daughter more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me;
38 And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me [cleave steadfastly to Me, conforming wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying also] is not worthy of Me.
39 Whoever finds his [lower] life will lose it [the higher life], and whoever loses his [lower] life on My account will find it [the higher life].
40 He who receives and welcomes and accepts you receives and welcomes and accepts Me, and he who receives and welcomes and accepts Me receives and welcomes and accepts Him Who sent Me.
41 He who receives and welcomes and accepts a prophet because he is a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward, and he who receives and welcomes and accepts a righteous man because he is a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
42 And whoever gives to one of these little ones [in rank or influence] even a cup of cold water because he is My disciple, surely I declare to you, he shall not lose his reward.
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