Luke 10:3
Go ye: lo, I send you forth, as sheep among wolves.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
In Context
4Take to you no purses, nor wallets, nor shoes; and salute no man by the way.
Cross References
Matthew 7:15Beware of false prophets; who come to you in the garb of sheep, but internally they are rapacious wolves.
Matthew 10:22And ye shall be hated by every one, on account of my name. But he that shall endure to the end, shall have life.
John 15:20Remember the word that I spoke to you, That there is no servant, who is greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; and if they have observed my teaching, they will also observe yours.
Acts 9:2And he requested that a letter from the high priest might be given him unto Damascus to the synagogues; that if he should find persons pursuing this course, men or women, he might bind and bring them to Jerusalem.
Matthew Henry on Luke 10:2-17
The Mission of the Seventy. 1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. 2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. 3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. 5 And into… Read the whole commentary →