Matthew 10:20 | 1719
10:9 m Lk 22:35 10:10 n 1Ti 5:18 10:12 o 1Sa 25:6
10:14 p Ne 5:13; Lk 10:11; Ac 13:51
10:15 q 2Pe 2:6 r Mt 12:36; 2Pe 2:9;
1Jn 4:17 s Mt 11:22, 24
10:16 t Lk 10:3 u Ro 16:19
10:17 v Mt 5:22 w Mt 23:34; Mk 13:9;
Ac 5:40; 26:11
10:18 x Ac 25:24‐26 10:19 y Ex 4:12 10:20 z Ac 4:8
9“ Do not get any gold or sil ver or cop per to take with you in your belts m— 10 no bag for the jour ney or ex tra shirt or san dals or a staff, for the work er is worth his keep. n 11 Whatever town or vil lage you en ter, search there for some wor thy per son and stay at their house until you leave. 12 As you en ter the home, give it your greet ing. o 13 If the home is de serving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace re turn to you. 14 If any one will not wel come you or lis ten to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. p 15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bear able for Sodom and Go mor rah q on the day of judgment r than for that town. s
16“ I am send ing you out like sheep among wolves. t There fore be as shrewd as snakes and as in no cent as doves. u 17 Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the lo cal councils v and be flogged in the syn a gogues. w 18 On my ac count you will be brought be fore gov er nors and kings x as wit nesses to them and to the Gen tiles. 19 But when they ar rest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. y At that time you will be given what to say, 20 for it will not be you speak ing, but the Spirit of your Fa ther z speak ing through you.
10:9 – 10 Mark 6:8 – 9 gives slightly different instructions, which some harmonize by taking“ Do not get” as meaning not to acquire extra provisions. Alternately, because Luke includes accounts of the sending of both the Twelve( Luke 9:1 – 6) and the Seventy-two( which may have included the Twelve; Luke 10:1 – 24) with similar but not identical regulations, Matthew may have included some of the information from the latter occasion in this sermon. 10:10 the worker is worth his keep. Jesus reverses the typical rabbinic practice of not receiving material possessions for ministry. But precisely because he expects others to provide for the disciples as they journey, he can command them to travel light. 10:13 let your peace rest on it. Give the household a blessing. let your peace return to you. Retract( or do not give) the blessing. 10:14 shake the dust off your feet. A ceremonial gesture that means one has no further responsibility or relationship with the places or people involved. 10:15 more bearable. Implies degrees of judgment, based on degrees of wickedness, in eternal punishment( cf. Luke 12:47 – 48). Sodom and Gomorrah. The extremely wicked towns that God destroyed in the time of Abraham and Lot( Gen 19:1 – 29). 10:16 This verse serves as a transition. Both in the short and long terms, the disciples must recognize the danger from those who will reject them and even prove hostile to them like“ wolves.” like sheep. Suggests that the disciples do not fight back.
10:17 – 42 The disciples did not experience before Jesus’ death and resurrection most of what Jesus predicts in this section, so he is looking to a time further in the future that reveals long-term reactions to the Christian mission. 10:17 councils. The disciples are arraigned before councils in Acts 4:1 – 22; 5:17 – 41. flogged in the synagogues. Paul is flogged with 39 lashes on five different occasions( 2 Cor 11:24). 10:18 governors and kings. Paul appears before various Roman“ governors”( regional rulers, e. g., Acts 18:12 – 17) and“ kings”( including the emperor, Acts 25:10 – 12). 10:19 – 20 These verses promise the empowerment of the Spirit in situations such as sudden arrest when one cannot prepare ahead of time what to say.
THE TWELVE APOSTLES
MATTHEW 10:2 – 4 MARK 3:16 – 19 LUKE 6:14 – 16 ACTS 1:13
Simon Peter Simon Peter Simon Peter( Simon) Peter
Andrew James Andrew John
James John James James
John Andrew John Andrew
Philip Philip Philip Philip
Bartholomew Bartholomew( Nathanael) Bartholomew Thomas
Thomas Matthew( Levi) Matthew Bartholomew
Matthew Thomas Thomas Matthew
James( of Alphaeus) James( of Alphaeus) James( of Alphaeus) James( of Alphaeus)
Thaddaeus 1 Thaddaeus Simon( the Zealot) Simon( the Zealot)
Simon( the Zealot) Simon( the Zealot) Judas( of James) Judas( of James)
Judas Iscariot Judas Iscariot Judas Iscariot ………………
1 Matthew and Mark have the name Thaddaeus while Luke, in his two lists( Luke 6 and Acts 1), has Judas( of James). Some think Judas may
have been his original name and that it was changed later to Thaddaeus( meaning perhaps“ warmhearted”) in order to avoid the stigma attached to the name Judas Iscariot.
It is interesting that all four lists begin with Simon Peter and end with Judas Iscariot( except the Acts 1 list, for Judas had already killed himself). Also, the names would appear to be in groups of four. Peter, Andrew, James, and John are always in the first group— though not always in that order— and Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew are in the second group in all four lists.
In all four lists, Peter’ s name heads the first group, Philip heads the second, and James( of Alphaeus) heads the third. John’ s Gospel does not contain a listing of the apostles.
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