9:35 Then Jesus went throughout all the towns ¹  and villages, teaching in their synagogues, ²  preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness. ³  9:36 When ⁴  he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, ⁵  like sheep without a shepherd. 9:37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. 9:38 Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest ⁶  to send out ⁷  workers into his harvest.”

10:1 Jesus ⁸  called his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits ⁹  so they could cast them out and heal every kind of disease and sickness. ¹⁰  10:2 Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: ¹¹  first, Simon ¹²  (called Peter), and Andrew his brother; James son of Zebedee and John his brother; 10:3 Philip and Bartholomew; ¹³  Thomas ¹⁴  and Matthew the tax collector; ¹⁵  James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; ¹⁶  10:4 Simon the Zealot ¹⁷  and Judas Iscariot, ¹⁸  who betrayed him. ¹⁹ 

10:5 Jesus sent out these twelve, instructing them as follows: ²⁰  “Do not go to Gentile regions ²¹  and do not enter any Samaritan town. ²²