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| [1]And he called his twelve disciples, and gave them power over unclean spirits to cast them out, and to cure every disease and infirmity. |
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| [2]Now, of the twelve apostles the names are these: the first of them, Shemun who is called Kipha, and Andreas his brother, and Jakubbar-Zabdai, and Juchanon his brother, |
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| [3]And Philipos, and Bar-Tholmai, and Thoma, and Mathai the tribute-gatherer, and Jakubbar-Chalphai, and Labi who was surnamed Thadai, |
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| [4]And Shemun the zealous,ⓘ and Jihuda S'carjuta, he who betrayed him. |
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| [5]These twelve Jeshu sent, and commanded them and said, In the way of the heathens go not, and into the city of the Shomroyee do not enter; |
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| [6]But go rather unto the sheep which have perished from the house of Isroel. |
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| [7]And as you go, proclaim and say that the kingdom of heaven hath drawn near. |
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| [8]The diseased heal, the lepers cleanse, the dead raise, and the demons cast forth. Freely you have received, freely give. |
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| [9]Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, |
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| [10]Nor a wallet for the road; neither two tunics, nor sandals, nor staff: for worthy is the workman of his meat. |
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| [11]And into whatsoever city or town you enter, inquire who is worthy in it, and there be till you depart. |
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| [12]And when you enter into the house, invoke peace for the house; |
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| [13]And if the house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it; but if it be not worthy, your peace upon yourselves shall revert. |
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| [14]But whosoever doth not receive you or hear your words, when you depart from that house, or that town, set free the dust from your feet. |
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| [15]And, Amen, I say unto you, that for the land of Sadum and of Amura it will be more tolerable, in the day of the judgment, than for that city. |
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| [16]LO, I send you forth as sheep among wolves: be you, therefore, wise as serpents and guileless as doves. |
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| [17]But beware of the sons of men; for, delivering you to the house of judgments, in their synagogues they will scourge you, |
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| [18]And before governors and kings bring you, on my account, for the testimony concerning them and the gentiles. |
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| [19]But when they deliver you up, be not solicitous how or what you shall speak; for it is given you in that hour what you shall speak. |
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| [20]For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking in you. |
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| [21]But the brother shall deliver his brother unto death, and the father his son; and the sons shall rise up against their fathers, and shall slay them. |
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| [22]And you shall be abhorred by all men on account of my name: but he who shall persevere until the end, he shall be saved.ⓘ |
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| [23]When they persecute you in this city, escape to the other; for, Amen I say unto you, that you shall not have completed all the cities of the house of Isroel, till the Son of man shall come. |
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| [24]The disciple is not greater than his master, nor the servant than his lord. |
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| [25]It sufficeth the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If the master of the house they have called Beelzebub, how much more his house-sons! |
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| [26]You shall not fear, therefore, from them; for there is nothing covered which shall not be revealed, nor secret which shall not be known. |
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| [27]Whatsoever I say to you in darkness, declare you in the light; and whatsoever you have heard in your ears, proclaim upon the [house-]roofs. |
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| [28]And fear not them who kill the body, but the soul cannot kill; but fear rather One who the soul and the body can destroy in gihano. |
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| [29]Are not two sparrows sold for an asor?ⓘ yet one of them, without your Father, doth not fall upon the earth. |
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| [30]But of you, also, the hairs of your head are all numbered. |
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| [31]Fear not, therefore; than many sparrows more precious are you. |
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| [32]Every man, therefore, who shall confess me before the sons of men, I myself will confess him also before my Father who is in heaven. |
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| [33]But whosoever shall deny me before the sons of men, I also will deny him, I, before my Father who is in heaven. |
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| [34]EXPECT not that I have come to send forth peace on the earth; I have not come to send forth peace, but the sword. |
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| [35]For I have come to cause a man to separate fromⓘ his father, and a daughter from her mother, and a daughter-in-law from her mother-in-law; |
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| [36]And the adversaries of a man [to be] his own house-sons. |
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| [37]Whosoever loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy [of] me; and whosoever loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy [of] me. |
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| [38]And every one who taketh not his cross and cometh after me, is not worthy of me. |
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| [39]Whosoever will find his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it. |
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| [40]Whosoever receiveth you, receiveth me; and whosoever receiveth me, Him who sent me he receiveth. |
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| [41]Whosoever entertaineth a prophet in the name of a prophet, the reward of a prophet receiveth. Whosoever entertaineth a just man in the name of a just man, the reward of the just man he receiveth. |
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| [42]And whosoever only giveth one of these little ones a cup of cold [waters] to drink in the name of a disciple, Amen, I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward. |
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