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10:1  Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to cast out evil spirits and to heal every kind of sickness and disease.
10:2  Here are the names of his twelve disciples: Simon (also called Peter), Andrew (Peter’s brother), James (Zebedee’s son), John (James’s brother), Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew (the tax collector), James (Alphaeus’s son), Thaddaeus, Simon (a member of “The Zealots,” a subversive political party), Judas Iscariot (the one who betrayed him).
10:3  Here are the names of his twelve disciples: Simon (also called Peter), Andrew (Peter’s brother), James (Zebedee’s son), John (James’s brother), Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew (the tax collector), James (Alphaeus’s son), Thaddaeus, Simon (a member of “The Zealots,” a subversive political party), Judas Iscariot (the one who betrayed him).
10:4  Here are the names of his twelve disciples: Simon (also called Peter), Andrew (Peter’s brother), James (Zebedee’s son), John (James’s brother), Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew (the tax collector), James (Alphaeus’s son), Thaddaeus, Simon (a member of “The Zealots,” a subversive political party), Judas Iscariot (the one who betrayed him).
10:5  Jesus sent them out with these instructions: “Don’t go to the Gentiles or the Samaritans,
10:6  but only to the people of Israel—God’s lost sheep.
10:7  Go and announce to them that the Kingdom of Heaven is near.
10:8  Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure the lepers, and cast out demons. Give as freely as you have received!
10:9  “Don’t take any money with you;
10:10  don’t even carry a duffle bag with extra clothes and shoes, or even a walking stick; for those you help should feed and care for you.
10:11  Whenever you enter a city or village, search for a godly man and stay in his home until you leave for the next town.
10:12  When you ask permission to stay, be friendly,
10:13  and if it turns out to be a godly home, give it your blessing; if not, keep the blessing.
10:14  Any city or home that doesn’t welcome you—shake off the dust of that place from your feet as you leave.
10:15  Truly, the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah will be better off at Judgment Day than they.
10:16  “I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. Be as wary as serpents and harmless as doves.
10:17  But beware! For you will be arrested and tried, and whipped in the synagogues.
10:18  Yes, and you must stand trial before governors and kings for my sake. This will give you the opportunity to tell them about me, yes, to witness to the world.
10:19  “When you are arrested, don’t worry about what to say at your trial, for you will be given the right words at the right time.
10:20  For it won’t be you doing the talking—it will be the Spirit of your heavenly Father speaking through you!
10:21  “Brother shall betray brother to death, and fathers shall betray their own children. And children shall rise against their parents and cause their deaths.
10:22  Everyone shall hate you because you belong to me. But all of you who endure to the end shall be saved.
10:23  “When you are persecuted in one city, flee to the next! I will return before you have reached them all!
10:24  A student is not greater than his teacher. A servant is not above his master.
10:25  The student shares his teacher’s fate. The servant shares his master’s! And since I, the master of the household, have been called ‘Satan,’ how much more will you!
10:26  But don’t be afraid of those who threaten you. For the time is coming when the truth will be revealed: their secret plots will become public information.
10:27  “What I tell you now in the gloom, shout abroad when daybreak comes. What I whisper in your ears, proclaim from the housetops!
10:28  “Don’t be afraid of those who can kill only your bodies—but can’t touch your souls! Fear only God who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
10:29  Not one sparrow (What do they cost? Two for a penny?) can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.
10:30  And the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
10:31  So don’t worry! You are more valuable to him than many sparrows.
10:32  “If anyone publicly acknowledges me as his friend, I will openly acknowledge him as my friend before my Father in heaven.
10:33  But if anyone publicly denies me, I will openly deny him before my Father in heaven.
10:34  “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! No, rather, a sword.
10:35  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—
10:36  a man’s worst enemies will be right in his own home!
10:37  If you love your father and mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.
10:38  If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine.
10:39  “If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give it up for me, you will save it.
10:40  “Those who welcome you are welcoming me. And when they welcome me they are welcoming God who sent me.
10:41  If you welcome a prophet because he is a man of God, you will be given the same reward a prophet gets. And if you welcome good and godly men because of their godliness, you will be given a reward like theirs.
10:42  “And if, as my representatives, you give even a cup of cold water to a little child, you will surely be rewarded.”