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差遣十二使徒(A)

10 耶稣叫了十二门徒来,赐给他们胜过污灵的权柄,可以赶出污灵和医治各种疾病、各种病症。 十二使徒的名字如下:为首的是西门(又名彼得),西门的弟弟安得烈,西庇太的儿子雅各,雅各的弟弟约翰, 腓力,巴多罗迈,多马,税吏马太,亚勒腓的儿子雅各,达太, 激进派的西门,和出卖耶稣的加略人犹大。 耶稣差遣这十二个人出去,并且嘱咐他们:“外族人的路,你们不要走,撒玛利亚人的城,你们也不要进; 却要到以色列家的迷羊那里去。 你们要一边走一边宣扬说:‘天国近了。’ 要医治有病的,叫死人复活,洁净患痲风的,赶出污鬼。你们白白地得来,也应当白白地给人。 你们腰袋里不要带金、银、铜钱; 10 路上不要带行囊,也不要带两件衣裳,不要带鞋或手杖,因为作工的理当得到供应。 11 你们无论进哪一座城哪一个村,都要打听谁配接待你们,就住在那里,直到离去。 12 到他家里的时候,要向他们问安; 13 如果这家是配得的,你们的平安就必临到他们;如果这家不配得,你们的平安仍归你们。 14 如果有人不接待你们,不听你们的话,你们离开那一家那一城的时候,就要把脚上的灰尘跺下去。 15 我实在告诉你们,在审判的日子,所多玛和蛾摩拉所受的,比那城还轻呢。

使徒会遭受迫害(B)

16 “现在,我差派你们出去,好象羊进到狼群中间;所以你们要像蛇一样机警,像鸽子一样纯洁。 17 你们要小心,因为有人要把你们送交公议会,并要在会堂里鞭打你们; 18 你们为我的缘故,也要被带到统治者和君王面前,向他们和外族人作见证。 19 你们被捕的时候,用不着担心说甚么和怎么说,因为那时你们必得着当说的话; 20 因为说话的不是你们,而是你们的父的灵,是他在你们里面说话。 21 弟兄要出卖弟兄,父亲要出卖儿女,甚至把他们置于死地;儿女要悖逆父母,害死他们。 22 你们为我的名,要被众人恨恶,然而坚忍到底的必然得救。 23 如果有人在这城迫害你们,就逃到别的城去。我实在告诉你们,你们还没有走遍以色列的各城,人子就来到了。

24 “学生不能胜过老师,奴仆也不能胜过主人。 25 学生若能像老师一样,奴仆若能像主人一样,也就够了。如果一家之主也被称为别西卜(“别西卜”是鬼王的名字),何况他的家人呢?

应该怕谁(C)

26 “所以不要怕他们。没有甚么掩盖的事不被揭露,也没有甚么秘密是人不知道的。 27 我在暗处告诉你们的,你们要在明处讲出来;你们听见的耳语,要在房顶上宣扬出来。 28 那些杀身体却不能杀灵魂的,不要怕他们;倒要怕那位能把灵魂和身体都投入地狱里的。 29 两只麻雀不是卖一个大钱吗?但你们的父若不许可,一只也不会掉在地上。 30 甚至你们的头发都一一数过了。 31 所以不要怕,你们比许多麻雀贵重得多呢。

32 “凡在人面前承认我的,我在我天父面前也要承认他; 33 在人面前不认我的,我在我天父面前也要不认他。

作门徒的代价(D)

34 “你们不要以为我来了,是要给地上带来和平;我并没有带来和平,却带来刀剑, 35 因为我来了是要叫人分裂:

人与父亲作对,

女儿与母亲作对,

媳妇与婆婆作对,

36 人的仇敌就是自己的家人。

37 爱父母过于爱我的,不配作属我的;爱儿女过于爱我的,不配作属我的; 38 凡不背起自己的十字架来跟从我的,也不配作属我的。 39 顾惜自己生命的,必要丧掉生命;但为我牺牲生命的,必要得着生命。

得赏赐(E)

40 “接待你们的,就是接待我;接待我的,就是接待那差我来的。 41 因先知的名接待先知的,必得先知所得的赏赐;因义人的名接待义人的,必得义人所得的赏赐。 42 无论谁因门徒的名,只把一杯凉水给这些微不足道的人中的一个喝,我实在告诉你们,他决不会得不到他的赏赐。”

10 Jesus called his twelve disciples to him. He gave them power over bad spirits so they could drive them out of people. He gave them power to heal people who were sick or weak in any way.

2-4 he names of the twelve apostles are: Simon, whose other name was Peter, and his brother Andrew, James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector, James, the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose other name was Thaddaeus, Simon, the freedom fighter, and Judas Iscariot, the one who gave Jesus over to people who hated him.

Jesus sent out these twelve. He said to them, `Do not go to the people who are not Jews. Do not go to any town of the Samaritan people.

But go to the people of Israel. They are like lost sheep.

As you go, tell people that the kingdom of heaven is here.

Heal sick people. Bring dead people to life. Heal people who have leprosy. Drive bad spirits out of people You got it free, so give it free to others

Do not take gold, silver, or brass money with you.

10 Do not take a bag with you, and do not take two shirts, shoes, or a walking stick. The one who does the work should be given his food.

11 When you come to any city or town, ask who there is able to have you. Then live there until you leave the town.

12 When you go into the house, greet the family with a blessing.

13 If the family is all right, let your blessing stay on it. If it is not all right, take your blessing away.

14 In some places people will not take you in, or listen to what you say. So when you leave that house or town, shake the dust off your feet.

15 I tell you the truth. On the day when people are judged, the people from that city will be punished harder than the people from the country of Sodom and Gomorrah.'

16 `I am sending you out amongst people. You will be like sheep amongst bad animals like wolves. So be wise like snakes, and harmless like doves.

17 But take care. Men will take you to their courts. They will beat you in their meeting houses.

18 They will bring you to rulers and kings for my sake. Then you will talk about me to them and to those who are not Jews.

19 When men take you to court, do not be troubled about what you will say. What you are to say will come to your mind at the right time.

20 It is not you who speak. But it is the Spirit of your Father who is speaking through you.

21 A brother will take his brother to be killed. A father will take his child. The children will talk against their father and mother, and have them killed.

22 Everyone will hate you because you are true to me. But the person who keeps on being true to me until the end, will be saved.

23 When they trouble you in one town, go to another. I tell you the truth. You will not go to all the towns in Israel before the Son of Man comes.

24 `The one who learns is not better than his teacher. And the servant is not better than his master.

25 The one who learns should want to be like his teacher. And the servant should want to be like his master. If they say the master belongs to the devil, they will say it all the more about those who work for him.'

26 `So do not be afraid of people. Everything that is hidden will be seen. Everything that is hidden will be known.

27 What I say to you in the dark, tell it in the light. What you hear in secret, shout to others from the tops of the houses.

28 Do not fear people who can kill the body. They cannot kill the spirit. But fear the one who can destroy both spirit and body in hell.

29 Are not two sparrows worth only a small amount of money? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father knowing about it.

30 Even the number of hairs on your head is known.

31 So do not fear. You are worth more than many sparrows.'

32 `If anyone tells people that he knows me, I will also tell the Father in heaven that I know him.

33 But anyone who tells people he does not know me, I will also tell my Father in heaven that I do not know him.'

34 `Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but war.

35 I came to take away peace between a man and his father. I came to take away peace between a daughter and her mother. I came to take away peace between a man's wife and his mother.

36 A man will have people in his own family who make trouble for him.

37 Anyone who loves his father or his mother more than he loves me, is not good enough for me. Anyone who loves his son or his daughter more than he loves me, is not good enough for me.

38 Anyone who is not willing to carry his cross and suffer with me, is not good enough for me.

39 Anyone who tries to keep his life, will lose it. Anyone who gives up his life for my sake, will find it.'

40 `Anyone who takes you in, takes me in. And anyone who takes me in, takes in the one who sent me.

41 Anyone who takes in a prophet because he is a prophet of God will get a prophet's reward.

42 And if any one as a disciple gives a drink of cold water to one of my children, he will not lose his reward. I tell you the truth.'