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Then he touched their eyes and said, "Let it happen to you according to your trust";

and their sight was restored. Yeshua warned them severely, "See that no one knows about it."

But instead, they went away and talked about him throughout that district.

As they were going, a man controlled by a demon and unable to speak was brought to Yeshua.

Yeshua went about all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and weakness.

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were harried and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Then he said to his talmidim, "The harvest is rich, but the workers are few.

Pray that the Lord of the harvest will send out workers to gather in his harvest."

Yeshua called his twelve talmidim and gave them authority to drive out unclean spirits and to heal every kind of disease and weakness.

Shim`on the Zealot, and Y'hudah from K'riot, who betrayed him.

These twelve Yeshua sent out with the following instructions: "Don't go into the territory of the Goyim, and don't enter any town in Shomron,

Yes, I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgment for the people of S'dom and `Amora than for that town!

"Pay attention! I am sending you out like sheep among wolves, so be as pru dent as snakes and as harmless as doves.

On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as a testimony to them and to the Goyim.

Everyone will hate you because of me, but whoever holds out till the end will be preserved from harm.

When you are persecuted in one town, run away to another. Yes indeed; I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Isra'el before the Son of Man comes.

What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim on the housetops.

"Whoever acknowledges me in the presence of others I will also acknowledge in the presence of my Father in heaven.

But whoever disowns me before others I will disown before my Father in heaven.

"Don't suppose that I have come to bring peace to the Land. It is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword!

For I have come to set

Whoever loves his father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than he loves me is not worthy of me.

And anyone who does not take up his execution-stake and follow me is not worthy of me.

Whoever finds his own life will lose it, but the person who loses his life for my sake will find it.

"Whoever receives you is receiving me, and whoever receives me is receiving the One who sent me.