Matthew 10
10
Jesus Sends Out the 12 Disciples
1Jesus called for his 12 disciples and gave them authority to drive out demons and heal every kind of disease and sickness.
2Here are the names of the 12 apostles.
First, Simon (also called Peter) and his brother Andrew;
then James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
3Philip and Bartholomew;
Thomas and Matthew the tax collector;
James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
4Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.
5Jesus sent these 12 out with the following orders. “Don’t go among the Gentiles and don’t enter any town where the Samaritans live. 6Instead, go to the lost sheep of Israel. 7As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near.’ 8Heal the sick, bring the dead back to life, make those who have skin diseases clean again, and drive out demons. You have received freely, so give freely.
9“Don’t take any gold, silver, or copper coins with you in your belts. 10Don’t bring a bag for the journey, or any extra clothes or sandals or a walking stick. A worker deserves to be given what’s needed. 11When you enter a town or village, look for a person who’s willing to welcome you, and stay at their house until you leave. 12As you enter their home, give it your blessing of peace. 13If the home deserves it, your peace will rest upon it; if it doesn’t deserve it, your peace will return to you. 14Some people may not welcome you or listen to your words. If they don’t, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. 15Truly I tell you, on judgment day it will be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
16“I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as wise as snakes and as harmless as doves. 17Be careful who you trust! You’ll be turned over to the local courts and whipped in the synagogues. 18You’ll be put on trial before governors and kings because of me, as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. 19But when they arrest you, don’t worry about what you’ll say or how to say it. You’ll be given the right words at the time. 20It won’t even be you speaking. The Spirit of your Father will be speaking through you.
21“Brothers will betray brothers to those who want to kill them, and fathers will betray their children. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. 22Everyone will hate you because of me. But anyone who stands firm to the end will be saved. 23If people attack you in one place, escape to another. Truly I tell you, you won’t finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
24“The student isn’t greater than the teacher, and the slave isn’t greater than the master. 25It’s enough for students to be like their teachers and for slaves to be like their masters. If the head of the household has been called Beelzebul, the prince of demons, what should the others who live in the house expect to be called?
26“Don’t be afraid of your enemies. Everything that’s now secret will be brought out into the open and everything that’s hidden will be revealed. 27Repeat in the daylight what I tell you in the dark, and shout from the rooftops what is whispered in your ear. 28Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body but can’t kill the soul. Instead, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 29Aren’t two sparrows sold for only a penny? But not one of them falls to the ground without your Father being aware of it. 30He even knows every hair on your head! 31So don’t be afraid; you’re worth more than many sparrows.
32“If anyone tells others that they know me, I’ll tell my Father in heaven that I know them. 33But if anyone denies that they know me, I’ll tell my Father in heaven that I don’t know them.
34“Don’t think that I’ve come to bring peace to the earth. I haven’t come to bring peace, but a sword. 35I’ve come to turn
“ ‘sons against their fathers,
daughters against their mothers,
and daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law.
36A man’s enemies will be the members of his own family.’
37“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. Anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38Whoever doesn’t pick up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Whoever finds their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life because of me will find it.
40“Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41If someone welcomes a prophet because they’re a prophet, that person will receive a prophet’s reward. If someone welcomes a godly person because they’re godly, that person will receive a godly person’s reward. 42And if someone even gives a cup of cold water to a little one who follows me, truly I tell you, that person will be rewarded.”
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Matthew 10
10
Commissioning the Twelve
1Summoning His 12 disciples, # Mk 3:13-19; 6:13-16 He gave them authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out and to heal every # Or every kind of disease and sickness. # Mt 9:35; Mk 6:7; Lk 9:1 2These are the names of the 12 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; # Probably the Nathanael of Jn 1:45-51
Thomas and Matthew the tax collector;
James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; # Other mss read and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus
4Simon the Zealot, # Lit the Cananaean and Judas Iscariot, # Iscariot is probably “a man of Kerioth,” a town in Judea.
who also betrayed Him. # Mt 26:14; Lk 22:3; Jn 6:71; 13:2,26
5Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: “Don’t take the road leading to other nations, 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, announce this: ‘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 skin diseases, drive out demons. # Mk 3:15; Rv 9:20; 18:2 You have received free of charge; give free of charge. 9Don’t take along 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 walking stick, for the worker # Lk 10:7; 1Co 9:14; 1Tm 5:18 is worthy of his food.
11“When 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 will 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. 15I assure 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 harmless as doves. # Gn 3:1; Lk 10:3; Rm 16:19; Php 2:15 17Because people will hand you over to sanhedrins # Local Jewish courts or local councils and flog you in their synagogues, # Mk 13:9,11; Lk 12:11-12; Ac 5:40; 26:11 beware of them. 18You will even be brought before governors and kings because of Me, to bear witness to them and to the nations. # Mt 28:19; Rm 1:5; Gl 1:16 19But when they hand you over, don’t worry about how or what you should 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 you are not 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 even rise up against their 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 delivered. # Or saved # Mt 24:13; Mk 13:13; Jn 12:12-13 23When they persecute you in one town, escape to another. # Mt 12:15; Ac 8:1; 9:25; 14:6; 17:10 For I assure you: You will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. 24A disciple # 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, # 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? # 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. # 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 therefore; you are worth more than many sparrows. # Mt 6:26; 12:12
Acknowledging Christ
32“Therefore, everyone who will acknowledge Me before men, 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 men, # 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;
36and a man’s enemies will be
the members of his household. # Ps 41:9; 55:12-13; Mc 7:6; Jn 13:18 # Mc 7:6
37The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; # Lk 14:25-27 the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 38And whoever doesn’t take up his cross and follow # Lit follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39Anyone finding # Or The one who finds his life will lose it, # Mt 16:25; Mk 8:35; Lk 9:24; 17:33; Jn 12:25 and anyone losing # Or and the one 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 # Or The one who welcomes a prophet # 1Kg 17:10-15; 18:4; 2Kg 4:8; 3Jn 5-8 because he is a prophet # Lit prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. And anyone who # Or And the one who welcomes a righteous person because he’s righteous # 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 just a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple # 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 — I assure you: He will never lose his reward! ”
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