you shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the nations.
Acts 25,23; 27,24
Matt. 10,19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what you shall speak.
Luke 12,11.12; Acts 4,8
Matt. 10,20 For it is not you that speak, but the SPIRIT of your Father which speaks in you.
1 Cor. 2,4
Matt. 10,21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Micha 7,6
Matt. 10,22 And you shall be hated of all men for my name‘s sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
chap. 24,9-13; 2 Tim. 2,12
Matt. 10,23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into another: for truly I say to you, You shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
chap. 16,28; Acts 8,1
Matt. 10,24 The disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his Master.
Luke 6,40; John 13,16; 15,20
Matt. 10,25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his Master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
chap. 12,24
Matt. 10,26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
Mark 4,22; Luke 8,17
Matt. 10,27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak you in light: and what you hear in the ear, that preach you upon the housetops.
Matt. 10,28 And fear not them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Hebr 10,31; Jac. 4,12
Matt. 10,29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
Matt. 10,30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Acts 27,34
Matt. 10,31 Fear not therefore, you are of more value than many sparrows.
chap. 6,26
Matt. 10,32 Whoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father who is in heaven.
Rev. 3,5
Matt. 10,33 But whoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
Mark 8,38; Luke 9,26; 2 Tim. 2,12
Matt. 10,34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Luke 12,51-53
Matt. 10,35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matt. 10,36 And a man‘s foes shall be they of his own household.
Micha 7,6
Matt. 10,37 He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Deu. 13,7-12; 33,9; Luke 14,26.27
Matt. 10,38 And he that takes not his burden and follows after me, is not worthy of me.
chap. 16,24.25
* note: is meant figuratively. Who does not take the daily occurring difficulties with the true succession of the Messiah upon himself, is not worthy of him. That is to say this human follows the Master Yahshua just as the Master Yahshua has lived his life, by upholding his commandments, including the Sabbath, including his prayers, to the one true and only God, the Father.
Matt. 10,39 He that finds his life shall lose it: and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it.
Luke 9,24; John 12,25
Matt. 10,40 He that receives you receives me, and he that receives me receives him that sent me.
Luke 9,48; John 13,20; Gal 4,14
Matt. 10,41 He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet‘s reward; and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man‘s reward.
1 Kings 17,9-24
Matt. 10,42 And whoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
chap. 25,40; Mark 9,41
Chapter 11
The question of the Baptist.
(Luke 7,18-23)
Matt. 11,1 And it came to pass, when Yahshua had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities.
Matt. 11,2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of the Messiah, he sent two of his disciples,
chap. 14,3
Matt. 11,3 And said to him, Are you he that should come, or do we look for another?
chap. 3,11; Mal 3,1
Matt. 11,4 Yahshua answered and said to them, Go and show John again those things which you do hear and see:
Matt. 11,5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the good tiding preached to them.
Is.35,5.6; 61,1
Matt. 11,6 And blessed is he, whoever shall not be offended in me.
chap. 13,57; 26,31
Yahshua's witness concerning John the Baptist.
(Luke 7,24-35)
Matt. 11,7 And as they departed, Yahshua began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What went you out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
chap. 3,1.5
Matt. 11,8 But what went you out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings‘ houses.
Matt. 11,9 But what went you out for to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.
Luke 1,76; 20,6
Matt. 11,10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, which shall prepare your way before you.
Matt. 11,11 Truly I say to you, Among them that are born of women there has not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding (but) he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
chap. 13,17
Matt. 11,12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
Luke 16,16
Matt. 11,13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Matt. 11,14 And if you will receive it, this is EliYah, which was for to come.