10. Don’t carry a bag. Take for your trip only the clothes and sandals you are wearing. Don’t take a walking stick. A worker should be given the things he needs.
11. “When you enter a city or town, find some worthy person there and stay in his home until you leave.
12. When you enter that home, say, ‘Peace be with you.’
13. If the people there welcome you, let your peace stay there. But if they don’t welcome you, take back the peace you wished for them.
14. And if a home or town refuses to welcome you or listen to you, then leave that place. Shake its dust off your feet.
15. I tell you the truth. On the Judgment Day it will be worse for that town than for the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah.
16. “Listen! I am sending you out, and you will be like sheep among wolves. So be as smart as snakes. But also be like doves and do nothing wrong.
17. Be careful of people. They will arrest you and take you to court. They will whip you in their synagogues.
18. Because of me you will be taken to stand before governors and kings. You will tell them and the non-Jewish people about me.