3. “On your way! But be careful—this is hazardous work. You’re like lambs in a wolf pack.
4. “Travel light. Comb and toothbrush and no extra luggage.“Don’t loiter and make small talk with everyone you meet along the way.
7. “Stay at one home, taking your meals there, for a worker deserves three square meals. Don’t move from house to house, looking for the best cook in town.
23-24. He then turned in a private aside to his disciples. “Fortunate the eyes that see what you’re seeing! There are plenty of prophets and kings who would have given their right arm to see what you are seeing but never got so much as a glimpse, to hear what you are hearing but never got so much as a whisper.”
25. Just then a religion scholar stood up with a question to test Jesus. “Teacher, what do I need to do to get eternal life?”
26. He answered, “What’s written in God’s Law? How do you interpret it?”
27. He said, “That you love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence—and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself.”
28. “Good answer!” said Jesus. “Do it and you’ll live.”