Matthew 10–15

Chapter 10

And having called his twelve disciples together, he gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of diseases, and all manner of infirmities.

²And the names of the twelve Apostles are these: The first, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother,

³James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the publican, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus,

⁴Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

⁵These twelve Jesus sent: commanding them, saying: Go ye not into the way of the Gentiles, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye not.

⁶But go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

⁷And going, preach, saying: The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

⁸Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils: freely have you received, freely give.

⁹Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor money in your purses:

¹⁰Nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a staff; for the workman is worthy of his meat.

¹¹And into whatsoever city or town you shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide till you go thence.

¹²And when you come into the house, salute it, saying: Peace be to this house.

¹³And if that house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it; but if it be not worthy, your peace shall return to you.

¹⁴And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words: going forth out of that house or city shake off the dust from your feet.

¹⁵Amen I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

¹⁶Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.

¹⁷But beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

¹⁸And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles:

¹⁹But when they shall deliver you up, take no thought how or what to speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak:

²⁰For it is not you that speak, but the spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.

²¹The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death.

²²And you shall be hated by all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved.

²³And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into another. Amen I say to you, you shall not finish all the cities of Israel, till the Son of man come.

²⁴The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord.

²⁵It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the good man of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household?

²⁶Therefore fear them not. For nothing is covered that shall not be revealed: nor hid, that shall not be known.

²⁷That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops.

²⁸And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.

²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father.

³⁰But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

³¹Fear not therefore: better are you than many sparrows.

³²Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

³³But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.

³⁴Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.

³⁵For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

³⁶And a man’s enemies shall be they of his own household.

³⁷He 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.

³⁸And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me.

³⁹He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it.

⁴⁰He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.

⁴¹He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man.

⁴²And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you he shall not lose his reward.

Chapter 11

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

²Now when John had heard in prison the works of Christ: sending two of his disciples he said to him:

³Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another?

⁴And Jesus making answer said to them: Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen.

⁵The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

⁶And blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me.

⁷And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: What went you out into the desert to see? a reed shaken with the wind?

⁸But what went you out to see? a man clothed in soft garments? Behold they that are clothed in soft garments, are in the houses of kings.

⁹But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea I tell you, and more than a prophet.

¹⁰For this is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before my face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

¹¹Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born of women a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is the lesser in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

¹²And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away.

¹³For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John:

¹⁴And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come.

¹⁵He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁶But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place.

¹⁷Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.

¹⁸For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He hath a devil.

¹⁹The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.

²⁰Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein were done the most of his miracles, for that they had not done penance.

²¹Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you, they had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes.

²²But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment, than for you.

²³And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou shalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this day.

²⁴But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee.

²⁵At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones.

²⁶Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.

²⁷All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.

²⁸Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

²⁹Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.

³⁰For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.

Chapter 12

At that time Jesus went through the corn on the sabbath: and his disciples being hungry, began to pluck the ears, and to eat.

²And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days.

³But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him:

⁴How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only?

⁵Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame?

⁶But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple.

⁷And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent.

⁸For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.

⁹And when he had passed from thence, he came into their synagogues.

¹⁰And behold there was a man who had a withered hand, and they asked him, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.

¹¹But he said to them: What man shall there be among you, that hath one sheep: and if the same fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not take hold on it and lift it up?

¹²How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do a good deed on the sabbath days.

¹³Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand; and he stretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other.

¹⁴And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him.

¹⁵But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence: and many followed him, and he…