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And as you go, preach and say, `The Kingdom of the Heavens is close at hand.'
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Cure the sick, raise the dead to life, cleanse lepers, drive out demons: you have received without payment, give without payment.
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"Provide no gold, nor even silver nor copper to carry in your pockets;
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no bag for your journey, nor change of linen, nor shoes, nor stick; for the labourer deserves his food.
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"Whatever town or village you enter, inquire for some good man; and make his house your home till you leave the place.
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When you enter the house, salute it;
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and if the house deserves it, the peace you invoke shall come upon it. If not, your peace shall return to you.
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And whoever refuses to receive you or even to listen to your Message, as you leave that house or town, shake off the very dust from your feet.
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I solemnly tell you that it will be more endurable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of Judgement than for that town.
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"Remember it is I who am sending you out, as sheep into the midst of wolves; prove yourselves as sagacious as serpents, and as innocent as doves.
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But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to appear before Sanhedrins, and will flog you in their synagogues;