¹ Entonces llamando a sus doce discípulos, les dio potestad contra los espíritus inmundos, para que los echasen fuera, y sanasen toda enfermedad y toda flaqueza.

² Y los nombres de los doce apóstoles son éstos: el primero, Simón, que es llamado Pedro, y Andrés su hermano; Jacobo, hijo de Zebedeo, y Juan su hermano;

³ Felipe, y Bartolomé; Tomás, y Mateo el publicano; Jacobo hijo de Alfeo, y Lebeo, por sobrenombre Tadeo;

⁴ Simón el cananeo y Judas Iscariote, que también le entregó.

⁵ A estos doce envió Jesús, a los cuales dio mandamiento, diciendo: Por el camino de los gentiles no iréis, y en ciudad de samaritanos no entréis;

⁶ mas id antes a las ovejas perdidas de la Casa de Israel.

⁷ Y yendo, predicad, diciendo: El Reino de los cielos ha llegado.

⁸ Sanad enfermos, limpiad leprosos, resucitad muertos, echad fuera demonios; de gracia recibisteis, dad de gracia.

⁹ No proveáis oro, ni plata, ni dinero en vuestros cintos;

¹⁰ ni alforja para el camino; ni dos ropas de vestir, ni zapatos, ni bordón; porque el obrero digno es de su alimento.

¹¹ Mas en cualquier ciudad, o aldea donde entréis, buscad con diligencia quién sea en ella digno, y reposad allí hasta que salgáis.

¹² Y entrando en la casa, saludadla.

¹³ Y si la casa fuere digna, vuestra paz vendrá sobre ella; mas si no fuere digna, vuestra paz se volverá a vosotros.

¹⁴ Y cualquiera que no os recibiere, ni oyere vuestras palabras, salid de aquella casa o ciudad, y sacudid el polvo de vuestros pies.

¹⁵ De cierto os digo, que el castigo será más tolerable a la tierra de los de Sodoma y de los de Gomorra en el día del juicio, que a aquella ciudad.

¹⁶ He aquí, yo os envío como a ovejas en medio de lobos; sed pues prudentes como serpientes, y inocentes como palomas.

¹⁷ Y guardaos de los hombres, porque os entregarán en concilios, y en sus sinagogas os azotarán;

¹⁸ Y aun a príncipes y a reyes seréis llevados por causa de mí, por testimonio a ellos y a los gentiles.

¹⁹ Mas cuando os entregaren, no os apuréis por cómo o qué hablaréis; porque en aquella hora os será dado qué habéis de hablar.

²⁰ Porque no sois vosotros los que habláis, sino el Espíritu de vuestro Padre que habla en vosotros.

²¹ Y hermano entregará a hermano a la muerte, y padre a hijo; y los hijos se levantarán contra sus padres, y los harán morir.

²² Y seréis aborrecidos de todos por mi nombre; mas el que persevere hasta el fin, éste será salvo.

²³ Mas cuando os persiguieren en esta ciudad, huid a la otra; porque de cierto os digo, que no acabaréis de andar todas las ciudades de Israel, antes que venga el Hijo del hombre.

²⁴ El discípulo no es más que su maestro, ni el siervo más que su señor.

²⁵ Bástale al discípulo ser como su maestro, y al siervo como su señor. Si al padre de la familia llamaron Beelzebú, ¿cuánto más a los de su casa?

²⁶ Así que, no los temáis; porque nada hay encubierto, que no haya de ser manifestado; ni oculto, que no haya de saberse.

²⁷ Lo que os digo en tinieblas, decidlo en luz; y lo que oís al oído, predicadlo desde los terrados.

²⁸ Y no temáis a los que matan el cuerpo, mas al alma no pueden matar; temed antes a aquel que puede destruir el alma y el cuerpo en el quemadero.

²⁹ ¿No se venden dos pajarillos por un cuarto? Con todo, ni uno de ellos cae a tierra sin vuestro Padre.

³⁰ Pues aun vuestros cabellos están todos contados.

³¹ Así que, no temáis; más valéis vosotros que muchos pajarillos.

³² Cualquiera pues que me confesare delante de los hombres, le confesaré yo también delante de mi Padre que está en los cielos.

³³ Y cualquiera que me negare delante de los hombres, le negaré yo también delante de mi Padre que está en los cielos.

³⁴ No penséis que he venido para meter paz en la tierra; no he venido para meter paz, sino espada.

³⁵ Porque he venido para hacer disensión del hombre contra su padre, y de la hija contra su madre, y de la nuera contra su suegra.

³⁶ Y los enemigos del hombre serán los de su casa.

³⁷ El que ama padre o madre más que a mí, no es digno de mí; y el que ama hijo o hija más que a mí, no es digno de mí.

³⁸ Y el que no toma su madero, y sigue en pos de mí, no es digno de mí.

³⁹ El que hallare su vida, la perderá; y el que perdiere su vida por causa de mí, la hallará.

⁴⁰ El que os recibe a vosotros, a mí me recibe; y el que me recibe a mí, recibe al que me envió.

⁴¹ El que recibe profeta en nombre de profeta, salario de profeta recibirá; y el que recibe justo en nombre de justo, salario de justo recibirá.

⁴² Y cualquiera que diere a uno de estos pequeñitos un vaso de agua fría solamente, en nombre de discípulo, de cierto os digo, que no perderá su salario.

¹ The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

² and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."

³ He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

⁴ But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

⁵ They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."

⁶ Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.

⁷ He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.

⁸ See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."

⁹ They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.

¹⁰ But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

¹¹ They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

¹² The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

¹³ for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

¹⁴ Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

¹⁵ When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."

¹⁶ But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters' hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

¹⁷ It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"

¹⁸ Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.

¹⁹ See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

²⁰ See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."

²¹ He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

²² Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

²³ The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

²⁴ Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

²⁵ He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

²⁶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

²⁷ Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

²⁸ He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

²⁹ It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

³⁰ Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

³¹ The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.

³² Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

³³ They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

³⁴ It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

³⁵ They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she got up.

³⁶ Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father.

³⁷ The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

³⁸ The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.