2. He said to them, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.
3. Go your ways. Listen, I am sending you out as lambs among wolves.
4. Carry no purse, no bag, no shoes, and greet no one on the road.
5. “When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
6. If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him; but if not, it will return upon you.
7. Remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they give, for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Do not go from house to house.
8. “When you enter a city and they receive you, eat what is set before you.
9. Heal the sick who are there and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
10. But when you enter a city and they do not receive you, go your way out into their streets and say,
11. ‘Even the dust of your city which clings to us, we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near to you.’
12. But I say to you, it will be more tolerable on that Day for Sodom than for that city.
13. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done for you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.