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⁵ These twelve Jesus sent forth: and he commanded them and said: Go not in the way of the Gentiles: and enter not the cities of the Samaritans.⁶ But, go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.⁷ And as ye go, proclaim and say: The kingdom of heaven hath approached.⁸ Heal ye the sick; cleanse the leprous; [fn] and cast out demons. Freely ye have received; freely give. ⁹ Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;¹⁰ nor a wallet for the journey: neither two coats, nor shoes, nor a staff. For the laborer is worthy of his food.¹¹ And into whatever city or town ye enter, inquire, who in it is worthy; and there stay until ye depart.¹² And when ye enter a house, salute the household.¹³ And if the house be worthy, your peace will come upon it; but if it be not worthy, your peace will return upon yourselves.¹⁴ And whoever will not receive you, nor hear your discourses, when ye depart from that house or that town, shake off the dust from your feet.¹⁵ Verily I say to you, that it will be comfortable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, rather than for that city.

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep among wolves. Therefore be ye sagacious as serpents, and guileless as doves.¹⁷ And beware of men; for they will deliver you over to the tribunals, and will scourge you in their synagogues.¹⁸ And they will bring you before governors and kings, on my account, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.¹⁹ And when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given you in that hour what to say.²⁰ For it is not ye that speak, but the spirit of your Father speaking in you.²¹ And brother shall deliver up his brother to death, and a father his son; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to die.²² And ye shall be hated by every one, on account of my name. But he that shall endure to the end, shall have life.²³ And when they persecute you in one city, flee to another: for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have completed all the cities of the house of Israel, till the Son of man shall come.²⁴ No disciple is better than his rabbi; nor a servant, than his lord.²⁵ It is sufficient for the disciple, that he be as his rabbi; and the servant, as his lord. If they call the lord of the house Beelzebub, how much more the children of his family?²⁶ Therefore be not afraid of them; for there is nothing covered up, that shall not be exposed; nor concealed, that shall not become known.²⁷ Whatever I say to you in the dark, that speak ye in the light; and what ye have heard in your ears, proclaim ye on the housetops.²⁸ And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but be afraid rather of Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? Yet one of them doth not fall to the ground without your Father.³⁰ As for you, even the hairs of your head are all numbered.³¹ Therefore be not afraid: ye are more important than many sparrows.³² Wherefore, whoever shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven.³³ But whoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.³⁴ Think not that I have come to sow quietness on the earth: I have not come to sow quietness, but conflict.³⁵ For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.³⁶ And a man's foes will be the members of his household.³⁷ He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me:³⁸ and he that doth not bear his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.³⁹ He that preserveth his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall preserve it.⁴⁰ He that entertaineth you, entertaineth me: and he that entertaineth me, entertaineth him that sent me.⁴¹ He that entertaineth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward: and he that entertaineth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward.⁴² 42 And whoever shall give one of these little ones to drink a cup of cold [fn] only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.