Section XIII.

Section XIII.

[1] ⁹⁵¹I am sending you as lambs among wolves:  be ye now wise as serpents, and [2] harmless⁹⁵² as doves.  ⁹⁵³Beware of men:  they shall deliver you to the councils of the [3] magistrates, and scourge you in their synagogues; ⁹⁵⁴and shall bring you before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and against the nations.  [4] ⁹⁵⁵And when they deliver you up, be not⁹⁵⁶ anxious, nor consider beforehand, what ye [5] shall say; but ye shall be given⁹⁵⁷ in that hour what ye ought to speak.  ⁹⁵⁸Ye do not [6] speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaketh in you.  ⁹⁵⁹The brother shall deliver up his brother to death, and the father his son; and the sons shall rise against their [7] parents, and put them to death.  ⁹⁶⁰And ye shall be hated of every man because of [8] my name; but he that endureth unto the end of the matter shall be saved.^{961  962}When they expel you from this city, flee to another.  Verily I say unto you, Ye shall not finish all the cities of the people of Israel, until the Son of man come.

[9, 10] ⁹⁶³A disciple is not superior to his lord, nor a servant to his master.  ⁹⁶⁴For it is enough then for the disciple that he be as his lord, and the servant as his master.  If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the people [11] of his house!  ⁹⁶⁵Fear them not therefore:⁹⁶⁶  for there is nothing covered, that shall [12] [Arabic, p. 51] not be revealed; nor hid, that shall not be disclosed and published.  ⁹⁶⁷What I say unto you in the darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye have told [13] secretly in the ears in closets, let it be proclaimed on the housetops.  ⁹⁶⁸I say unto you now, my beloved, Be not agitated at⁹⁶⁹ those who kill the body, but have no power to [14] kill the soul.  I will inform you whom ye shall fear:  him⁹⁷⁰ which is able to destroy [15] soul and body in hell.  ⁹⁷¹Yea, I say unto you, Be afraid of him especially.  Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing in a bond?⁹⁷² and one of them shall not fall on the [16] ground without your Father.  ⁹⁷³But what concerns you:  even the hair of your heads [17, 18] also is numbered.  ⁹⁷⁴Fear not therefore; ye are better than many sparrows.  ⁹⁷⁵Every man who confesseth me now before men, I also will confess him before my Father [19] which is in heaven; ⁹⁷⁶but whosoever denieth me before men, I also will deny him before my Father which is in heaven.

[20] ⁹⁷⁷Think ye that I am come to cast peace into the earth?  I came not to cast peace, [21] but to cast dissension.  ⁹⁷⁸Henceforth there shall be five in one house, three of them [22] disagreeing with two, and the two with the three.  ⁹⁷⁹The father shall become hostile to his son, and the son to his father; and the mother to her daughter, and the daughter to her mother; and the mother in law to her daughter in law, and the daughter [23] in law to her mother in law:  ⁹⁸⁰and a man’s enemies shall be the people of his house.  [24] ⁹⁸¹Whosoever loveth father or mother better than me is not worthy of me; and whosoever [Arabic, p. 52] loveth son or daughter more than his love of me is not worthy of me.  [25] ⁹⁸²And every one that doth not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of [26] me.  ⁹⁸³Whosoever findeth his life⁹⁸⁴ shall lose it; and whosoever loseth his life⁹⁸⁵ for my sake shall find it.

[27] ⁹⁸⁶And whosoever receiveth you receiveth me; and whosoever receiveth me receiveth [28] him that sent me.  ⁹⁸⁷And whosoever receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall take⁹⁸⁸ a prophet’s reward; and whosoever shall receive a righteous man [29] in the name of a righteous man shall take⁹⁸⁹ a righteous man’s reward.  ⁹⁹⁰And every one that shall give to drink to one of these least ones a drink of water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.

[30] ⁹⁹¹And when Jesus finished charging his twelve disciples, he removed thence to [31] teach and preach in their cities.  ⁹⁹²And while they were going in the way they entered into a certain village; and a woman named Martha entertained him in her house.  [32] ⁹⁹³And she had a sister named Mary, and she came and sat at the feet of our Lord, [33] and heard his sayings.  ⁹⁹⁴But Martha was disquieted by much serving; and she came and said unto him, My Lord, givest thou no heed that my sister left me alone to [34] serve? speak to her that she help me.  ⁹⁹⁵Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, [35] Martha, thou art solicitous and impatient⁹⁹⁶ on account of many things:  ⁹⁹⁷but what is sought is one thing.  But Mary hath chosen for herself a good portion, and that which shall not be taken from her.

[36] ⁹⁹⁸And the apostles went forth, and preached to the people that they might repent.  [37] ⁹⁹⁹And they cast out many devils, and anointed many sick with oil, and healed them.  [38, 39] ¹⁰⁰⁰And the disciples of John told him¹⁰⁰¹ of all these things.  ¹⁰⁰²And when John heard in [Arabic, p. 53] the prison of the doings of the Messiah, he called two of his disciples, and sent them to Jesus, and said, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for [40] another?  ¹⁰⁰³And they came to Jesus, and said unto him, John the Baptist hath sent [41] us unto thee, and said, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?  ¹⁰⁰⁴And in that hour he cured many of diseases, and of plagues of an evil spirit; and he gave sight [42] to many blind.  ¹⁰⁰⁵Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and tell John everything ye have seen and heard:  the blind see, and the lame walk, and the lepers are cleansed, and the blind¹⁰⁰⁶ hear, and the dead rise, and the poor have the gospel preached to [43] them.  ¹⁰⁰⁷And blessed is he who doubteth not in me.

[44] ¹⁰⁰⁸And when John’s disciples departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? a reed shaken with the [45] winds?  ¹⁰⁰⁹And if not, then what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment?  Behold, they that are in magnificent garments and in voluptuousness are in the abode [46] of kings.  ¹⁰¹⁰And if not, then what went ye out to see? a prophet?  Yea, I say unto [47] you, and more than a prophet.  ¹⁰¹¹This is he of whom it is written,

I am sending my messenger before thy face

To prepare the way before thee.