brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; ³Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus surnamed Thaddeus; ⁴Simon the Cananite⁴, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

⁵These twelve Jesus sent forth, and charged them, saying: Go not into the way to the Gentiles, and into a city of Samaritans enter not. ⁶But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷And as ye go, preach, saying: The kingdom of heaven is at hand. ⁸Heal the sick, raise the dead⁸, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. Freely ye received, freely give. ⁹Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your girdles; ¹⁰nor bag for the journey, nor two coats, nor sandals, nor staff; for the laborer is worthy of his living. ¹¹And into whatever city or village ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence. ¹²But when ye come into the house, salute it. ¹³And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye go out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. ¹⁵Verily I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.

¹⁶Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore wise as serpents, and simple as doves. ¹⁷But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and will scourge you in their synagogues; ¹⁸and before governors also and kings will ye be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

¹⁹But when they deliver you up, take not thought how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak. ²⁰For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaks in you.

²¹And the brother will deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. ²²And ye will be hated by all, for my name's sake; but he that has endured to the end, the same shall be saved.

²³But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the other; for verily I say to you, ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man come.

²⁴A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord. ²⁵It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord: If they called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

²⁶Fear them not therefore; for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, and hid that shall not be known. ²⁷What I say to you in the darkness, that speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, that proclaim upon the house-tops. ²⁸And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. ³⁰But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ³¹Fear not therefore; ye are of more value than many sparrows.

³²Every one, therefore, who shall acknowledge me before men, him will I also acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven. ³³But whoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

³⁴Think not that I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. ³⁵For I came to set a man at variance with his father, and a daughter with her mother, and a bride with her mother-in-law; ³⁶and a man's foes will be they of his household.

³⁷He that loves father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loves son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. ³⁸And he that does not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me. ³⁹He that finds his life shall lose it; and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it.

⁴⁰He that receives you receives me; and he that receives me receives him who sent me. ⁴¹He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. ⁴²And whoever shall give to drink a cup of cold water only to one of these little ones, in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

XI.  And it came to pass, when Jesus made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, that he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.

²And John, having heard in the prison the works of the Christ, sent by his disciples, ³and said to him: Art thou he that comes, or look we for another?

⁴And Jesus answering said to them: Go and report to John what ye hear and see. ⁵The blind receive sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and to the poor good tidings are published. ⁶And happy is he, whoever shall not be offended at me.

⁷And as these were departing, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? A reed shaken by the wind?

⁸But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they who wear soft clothing are in king's houses.

⁹But what went ye out to see? A prophet⁹? Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet. ¹⁰For this is he of whom it is written:

Behold, I send forth my messenger before thy face,

Who shall prepare thy way before thee.

¹¹Verily I say to you, among those born of women, there has not risen a greater than John the Immerser. But he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

¹²And from the days of John the Immerser until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent seize upon it. ¹³For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. ¹⁴And if ye are willing to receive it, he is the Elijah that should come. ¹⁵He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁶But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like to children sitting in the markets, who call to their fellows, ¹⁷and say: We piped to you, and ye danced not; we sang the lament, and ye did not beat the breast. ¹⁸For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say: He has a demon. ¹⁹The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom was justified on the part of her children.

²⁰Then began he to upbraid the cities