Matthew, Peter, Jude, James; The Books of the Bible in Modern American Form and Phrase

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 9-36. ' like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples: The harvest is truly plentiful but the laborers are few. So pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure all kinds of disease and all kinds of sickness. Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the Son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax-collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out and gave them this charge: Do not go to the heathen, Nor enter any city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep Of the house of Israel 10:7. And as you go, preach, and say: The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Cure the sick, Raise the dead, Cleanse the lepers, Drive out demons. Freely you have received, Freely give. Do not provide either gold, or silver, or brass in your purses. No bag for your journey. Nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a stick. For the workman is worthy of his food. Into whatever city or village you shall enter, Inquire who in it is worthy, And stay there till you go out. As you go into the house, salute it. If the house is worthy, Let your peace come on it, If it is not worthy Let your peace return to you. If any one shall not receive you, Nor hear your words, When you go out of that house or city, Shake off the dust of your feet. To tell you the truth: It will be more toler- 10:15. able for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah, in the day of judgment, Than for that city. I am sending y...