³⁵Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.^v ³⁶When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them,^w because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.^x ³⁷Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest^y is plentiful but the workers are few.^z ³⁸Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

10:2–4pp—Mk 3:16–19; Lk 6:14–16; Ac 1:13 10:9–15pp—Mk 6:8–11; Lk 9:3–5; 10:4–12 10:19–22pp—Mk 13:11–13; Lk 21:12–17 10:26–33pp—Lk 12:2–9 10:34,35pp—Lk 12:51–53

10Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits^a and to heal every disease and sickness.^b

²These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; ³Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; ⁴Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.^c

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Cross references

vSee Mt 4:23
w Mt 14:14; 15:32; Mk 8:2
x Nu 27:17; 1 Ki 22:17; Eze 34:5, 6; Zec 10:2
y Jn 4:35
z Lk 10:2
a Mk 3:13–15; 6:7; Lk 4:36; 9:1
bSee Mt 4:23
c Mt 26:14–16, 25, 47; 27:3; Mk 14:10; Jn 6:71; 12:4; 13:2, 26, 27; Ac 1:16