Gospel Of Matthew

Author(s): Mark Luke John
Publisher: Mark Luke John

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9:50 - But Jesus told him, "You must not stop him. The man who is not against you is on your side."
He sets off for Jerusalem to meet inevitable death
9:51-54 - Now as the days before he should be taken back into Heaven were running out, he resolved to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers in front of him. They set out and entered a Samaritan village to make preparations for him. But the people there refused to welcome him because he was obviously intending to go to Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Master, do you want us to call down fire from heaven and burn them all up?"
9:55-56 - But Jesus turned and reproved them, and they all went on to another village.
9:57 - As the little company made its way along the road, a man said to him, "I'm going to follow you wherever you go."
9:58 - And Jesus replied, "Foxes have earths, birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere that he can call his own."
9:59 - But he said to another man, "Follow me." And he replied, "Let me go and bury my father first."
9:60 - But Jesus told him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead. You must come away and preach the kingdom of God."
9:61 - Another man said to him, "I am going to follow you, Lord, but first let me bid farewell to my people at home."
9:62 - But Jesus told him, "Anyone who puts his hand to the plough and then looks behind him is useless for the kingdom of God."
CHAPTER 10
Jesus now despatches thirty-five couples to preach and heal the sick
10:1 - Later on the Lord commissioned seventy other disciples and sent them off in twos as advance-parties into every town and district where he intended to go.
10:2 - "There is a great harvest," he told them, "but only a few are working in it - which means you must pray to the Lord of the harvest that he will send out more reapers.
10:3-7 - "Now go on your way. I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Don't carry a purse or a pair of shoes, and don't stop to pass the time of day with anyone you meet on the road. When you go into a house, say first of all, 'Peace be to this household! If there is a lover of peace there, he will accept your words of blessing, and if not, they will come back to you. Stay in the same house and eat and drink whatever they put before you - a workman deserves his wages. But don't move from one house to another.
"10:8-12 - Whatever town you go into and the people welcome you, eat the meals they give you and heal the people who are ill there. Tell them, 'The kingdom of God is very near to you now.' But whenever you come into a town and they will not welcome you, you must go into the streets and say, "We brush off even the dust of your town from our feet as a protest against you. But it is still true that the kingdom of God has arrived! I assure you that it will be better for Sodom in that day' than for that town.
10:13-15 - "Alas for you, Chorazin, and alas for you, Bethsaida! For if Tyre and Sidon had seen the demonstrations of God's power that you have seen, they would have repented long ago and sat in sackcloth and ashes. It will be better for Tyre and Sidon in the