Mark has simply, ‘but the Holy Spirit’. Matthew prefers the unprecedented ‘Spirit of your Father’ (cf. Jn 14:26). This prepares for 10:21. If the disciples are to be betrayed by their own families, the terrible circumstance can be endured because they know that their real family is another (cf. 12:49–50). Matthew has also added ‘speaking through76 you’, which perhaps gains an allusion to 3 Βασ 22:24: ποῖον πνεῦμα κυρίου το͂ λαλῆσαν ἐν σοί. Two observations are in order. First, elsewhere in