Jesus

Then touched he their eyes, saying, `According to your faith let it be to you,'

and their eyes were opened, and Jesus strictly charged them, saying, `See, let no one know;'

but they, having gone forth, did spread his fame in all that land.

And as they are coming forth, lo, they brought to him a man dumb, a demoniac,

And Jesus was going up and down all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every sickness and every malady among the people.

And having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd,

then saith he to his disciples, `The harvest indeed is abundant, but the workmen few;

beseech ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he may put forth workmen to His harvest.'

And having called to him his twelve disciples, he gave to them power over unclean spirits, so as to be casting them out, and to be healing every sickness, and every malady.

Simon the Cananite, and Judas Iscariot, who did also deliver him up.

These twelve did Jesus send forth, having given command to them, saying, `To the way of the nations go not away, and into a city of the Samaritans go not in,

verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

`Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

`And whenever they may persecute you in this city, flee to the other, for verily I say to you, ye may not have completed the cities of Israel till the Son of Man may come.

that which I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light, and that which you hear at the ear, proclaim on the house-tops.

`Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens;

and whoever shall deny me before men, I also will deny him before my Father who is in the heavens.

`Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;

for I came to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

`He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

`He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

`He who is receiving you doth receive me, and he who is receiving me doth receive Him who sent me,