Matthew 10

Matthew 10:11

And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.

When ye enter into a city or town, enquire who may be the fittest host for you, and most worthy, through his good report, to be graced by your presence; and when ye have pitched in any house, do not change your lodging, while ye remain in that city, that ye may not seem inconstant or delicate, and may by this means give discontent to your first host.

Matthew 10:13

And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, then let your peace return to you.

And if the house be worthy, let that blessing, which your prayers have wished thereunto, fall upon it; but if it be not worthy, those well wishes of yours shall return back into your own bosoms.

Matthew 10:14

Shake off the dust of your feet.

Shake off the dust of your feet: to signify unto them, that ye do not mean to have ought to do with them; and to let them see, that their contempt of my message hath made them so

Matthew 10:17

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

They are wolves and not men, amongst whom I must send you: take heed therefore of these wolvish men; for they will persecute you for your message’ sake, and deliver you up as offenders into the hands of authority, and scourge you in their assemblies.

Matthew 10:19

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for &c.

When they deliver you up to their rulers, be not ye too fearfully solicitous what answers ye shall give; neither do herein trust too much to your own wit, and dexterity of replying; but know, that the Spirit of God shall be present with you, and shall put answers into your mouth.

Matthew 10:23

But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of Man be come.

It is not enough for you, that ye have in one city endured persecution; but when ye have suffered there, ye must betake yourselves to another city: for verily I say unto you, All the cities of Israel must have this Gospel of mine preached unto them by you; but, ere ye can have gone through them all, I, the Messiah, who send you, will personally second you in this mission of mine, and make manifest to the world my power and kingdom.

Matthew 10:25

If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?

I am the great Master of the Family, my Church; ye are my servants and attendants therein: if they have not stuck to cast reproaches upon me your Master in so high a degree, as to call me a devil, how much less do ye think will they spare you of my household?

Matthew 10:26

Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

Fear them not, therefore; neither be discouraged with the obscureness of this errand of the Gospel, which I do now commit unto you: for, howsoever it be now only preached in corners, in some little parcel of the world, it shall spread forth to all the utmost coasts of the earth; and, howsoever the despiteful world do now load you with slanders and unjust reproaches, yet the day shall come wherein your innocence and their malice shall be openly manifested unto all the world.

Matthew 10:27

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the car, that preach ye upon the housetops.

Be not, therefore, afraid to publish this message of mine: what I deliver to you in private, speak ye openly; and, what I speak to you alone, do ye proclaim it aloud from those places whence your voice may be best heard.

Matthew 10:29

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

Let the tyrants of the world threat what they please, they cannot do ought against you, but what is limited by my Providence; even the meanest of all the creatures are not exempted from the care and overruling power thereof: what bird is more cheap and worthless than a sparrow, whereof two are sold for a farthing? and yet the eye of Divine Providence is so over them, that nothing can befall to one of them, but what your Father in Heaven hath predetermined.

Matthew 10:30

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

But, for you, so precious is your life in the sight of God, that every thing that pertains unto you, even the very hairs of your head, is regarded by him: so as your enemies cannot touch one of those hairs, without the allowance of the Almighty.

Matthew 10:34

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

You are mistaken, if ye think, that, upon the coming of the Messiah, there shall be nothing but outward peace in the world: no; make account rather of the contrary: for it will fall out, through the corruption of man’s nature, that he shall take occasion from the Gospel to be moved to unquietness, both in himself and with others; and Satan, the common enemy of mankind, being enraged with the publication thereof, shall stir up broils and oppositions against it: so as not peace, but war and contention, will, through the wickedness of devils and men, follow upon the preaching of this Gospel of Peace.

Matthew 10:35

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, &c.

For, it will follow upon my coming, as if it had been a thing intended by me therein, that the son, hating and persecuting my truth, will make head against the father, which embraceth and professeth it, &c.

Matthew 10:39

He that findeth his life shall lose it.

He, that makes so dainty of his life, as that, when he is thereto called, he will not expose it to danger or loss, for my Name’s sake, shall be sure to lose it everlastingly. XI. 2, 3. He sent two of his disciples, Saying, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? John sent two of his disciples to Jesus, to enquire of him, whether he were the Messiah that should come. Not, for that John the Baptist did any way doubt of this truth, who had heard the voice from heaven acknowledging Jesus to be the Son of God, and had seen the Spirit descending upon him, and had