Jesus sends his 12 apostles to places in Israel
5 Jesus sent out these 12 disciples. Before they left, he said to them, ‘Do not go to any place where the people are Gentiles. And do not go to towns where only Samaritan people live. 6 Instead, you must go to the people of Israel. They are like lost sheep with nobody to take care of them.
10:5The Samaritan people and the Jews did not like each other. Some of the Samaritans' ancestors were Israelites and some of them were not.
7 While you travel, you must tell people about the kingdom of heaven. You must tell them that it has now become near. 8 Make sick people well again. Cause dead people to become alive again. If people have a bad skin disease, make them well again. Send bad spirits out of people to leave them. God has been very kind to you, so you should be kind to other people. When you help people, do not ask them for money. 9 Do not take any money in your purses. 10 Do not take a bag with you, or extra clothes. Do not take extra shoes or a stick. You are working to help people. So people should give you what you need to live.
11 When you arrive in a town or a village, look for a good person there. Continue to stay in that person's house until you leave there. 12 When you go into the house, ask God to bless the people there with peace. 13 If the people of that house deserve God's blessing, then they will have peace. But if they do not deserve it, God will bless you with peace instead of them. 14 Sometimes you will go to some house or town and the people will not accept you there. They will not listen to your message. Then you should leave. Clean the dirt of that place off your feet. 15 I tell you this. One day God will punish people like that. God will punish them even more than the people who lived in Sodom and Gomorrah long ago.’
10:15See Genesis 18. The people who lived in Sodom and Gomorrah were very wicked. 