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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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