1 Summoning his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, so as to drive them out and to heal every disease and every illness.
2 These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon, the one called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee and his brother John;
3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus;
4 Simon the Cananite, and Judas Iscariot, the one who also betrayed him.
5 Jesus sent out these twelve with these instructions: "Do not go off on a road to the Gentiles, and do not go into a Samaritan town;
6 go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 As you go, preach and say, 'The kingdom of heaven has drawn near.'
8 Heal the sick, cleanse lepers, raise the dead, drive out demons. You received without paying; give without charging.
9 Do not get gold or silver or copper to put in your belts,
10 no bag for the road, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for the worker deserves his food.
11 Whatever town or village you go into, search out who in it is worthy, and remain there until you go on.
12 When you come into the household, give it your greeting.
13 If the household is worthy, let your peace rest on it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace come back to you.
14 And whoever will not welcome you or hear your words, as you go out of that house or town, shake the dust off your feet.
15 Truly I say to you, it will be easier to endure for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that town.
16 Look, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be as shrewd as snakes and as guileless as doves.
17 Be on guard against people, for they will hand you over to local councils and whip you in their synagogues,
18 and you will even be led before governors and kings because of me, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
19 But when they hand you over, do not be anxious over how or what you will speak; for what you should speak will be given to you in that hour.
20 For you are not the ones speaking; it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
21 Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise up against their parents and have them killed.
22 You will be hated by everyone because of my name, but whoever endures to the end, that one will be saved.
23 Whenever they persecute you in this town, escape to another; for truly I say to you, you will certainly not finish the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
24 A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.
25 It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call the members of his household!
26 So do not fear them; for there is nothing concealed that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not come to be known.
27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the daylight; and what you hear in your ear, preach from the rooftops.
28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; instead, fear the one who has power to destroy both soul and body in hell.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for one assarion? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father.
30 As for you, even the hairs on your head have all been counted.
31 So stop being afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
32 So everyone who acknowledges me before people, I will also acknowledge him before my Father who is in heaven.
33 But whoever disowns me before people, I will also disown him before my Father who is in heaven.
34 Do not suppose that I came to cast peace upon the earth; I did not come to cast peace, but a sword.
35 For I came to divide a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
36 and a man's enemies will be the members of his household.
37 The one who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; the one who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.
38 And the one who does not take up his cross and follow behind me is not worthy of me.
39 The one who has found his life will lose it, and the one who has lost his life because of me will find it.
40 Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.
41 Anyone who welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and anyone who welcomes a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.
42 And whoever gives even a cup of cold water to drink to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will certainly not lose his reward."