The Sayings Gospel Q · 5 of 12

Following Jesus and the Mission

57.And someone told him, “I’ll follow you wherever you go.”

58.And Jesus told him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Humanity has nowhere to rest his head.”

59.But someone else told him, “Master, let me go and bury my father first.”

60.But he told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

2.He told his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. So ask the Lord of the harvest to send workers into the fields.”

3.“Go! Look, I send you out like lambs among wolves.”

4.“Don’t carry a purse, bag, sandals, or staff. Don’t greet anyone on the road.”

5.“Whenever you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’”

6.“If a peaceful person is there, let your blessing rest on them; but if not, take back your blessing.”

7.“Stay in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, because the worker is worthy of their wages. Don’t move around from house to house.”

8.“If they welcome you in whatever town you enter, eat whatever is set before you.”

9.“Heal those who are sick there and tell them, ‘God’s reign is at hand!’”

10.“But if they don’t welcome you in whatever town you enter, when you’re leaving that town, (11) shake the dust from your feet.”

12.“I’m telling you that on that day, it’ll be better for Sodom than for that town!”

13.“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the great deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed a long time ago in sackcloth and ashes.”

14.“But it will be better for Tyre and Sidon than for you in the judgment!”

15.“And you, Capernaum, you don’t think you’ll be exalted to heaven, do you? You’ll fall down to Hades!”

16.“Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.”

21.Then he said, “Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the wise and learned and revealing them to children. Yes, Father, this was what you wanted.”

22.“My Father has given me everything. No one knows who the son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the son, and the one to whom the son wants to reveal him.”

23.“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.”

24.“I’m telling you that many prophets and rulers wanted to see what you see, but didn’t see it; and to hear what you hear, but didn’t hear it.”