Part 11

010:003 Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax-gatherer, James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;

010:004 Simon the Cananaean, and Judas the Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.

010:005 These twelve Jesus sent on a mission, after giving them their instructions: "Go not," He said, "among the Gentiles, and enter no Samaritan town;

010:006 but, instead of that, go to the lost sheep of Israel's race.

010:007 And as you go, preach and say, `The Kingdom of the Heavens is close at hand.'

010:008 Cure the sick, raise the dead to life, cleanse lepers, drive out demons: you have received without payment, give without payment.

010:009 "Provide no gold, nor even silver nor copper to carry in your pockets;

010:010 no bag for your journey, nor change of linen, nor shoes, nor stick; for the labourer deserves his food.

010:011 "Whatever town or village you enter, inquire for some good man; and make his house your home till you leave the place.

010:012 When you enter the house, salute it;

010:013 and if the house deserves it, the peace you invoke shall come upon it. If not, your peace shall return to you.

010:014 And whoever refuses to receive you or even to listen to your Message, as you leave that house or town, shake off the very dust from your feet.

010:015 I solemnly tell you that it will be more endurable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of Judgement than for that town.

010:016 "Remember it is I who am sending you out, as sheep into the midst of wolves; prove yourselves as sagacious as serpents, and as innocent as doves.

010:017 But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to appear before Sanhedrins, and will flog you in their synagogues;

010:018 and you will even be put on trial before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness to them and to the Gentiles.

010:019 But when they have delivered you up, have no anxiety as to how you shall speak or what you shall say; for at that very time it shall be given you what to say;

010:020 for it is not you who will speak: it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

010:021 Brother will betray brother to death, and father, child; and children will rise against their own parents and will put them to death.

010:022 And you will be objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name; but he who holds out to the End-- he will be saved.

010:023 Whenever they persecute you in one town, escape to the next; for I solemnly tell you that you will not have gone the round of all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

010:024 "The learner is never superior to his teacher, and the servant is never superior to his master.

010:025 Enough for the learner to be on a level with his teacher, and for the servant to be on a level with his master. If they have called the master of the house Baal-zebul, how much more will they slander his servants?

010:026 Fear them not, however; there is nothing veiled which will not be uncovered, nor secret which will not become known.

010:027 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what is whispered into your ear, proclaim upon the roofs of the houses.

010:028 "And do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

010:029 Do not two sparrows sell for a halfpenny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's leave.

010:030 But as for you, the very hairs on your heads are all numbered.