Matthew 10:13
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| Matthew 10:13 | |
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← 10:12 10:14 → | |
 Matthew 10:13–15 on Papyrus 110 (3rd/4th century), recto side. | |
| Book | Gospel of Matthew |
| Christian Bible part | New Testament |
Matthew 10:13 is the thirteenth verse in the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort, this verse is:
- Καὶ ἐὰν μὲν ᾖ ἡ οἰκία ἀξία, ἐλθέτω ἡ εἰρήνη ὑμῶν ἐπ᾿ αὐτήν· ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ᾖ ἀξία, ἡ εἰρήνη ὑμῶν πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐπιστραφήτω.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
- And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
The New International Version translates the passage as:
- If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you.
Analysis
This is the seventh precept that Jesus gave to his disciples, "that they should pray for peace for their host." If the house is deserving the peace prayed for will come to the house.[1] Lapide notes that peace is personified in this verse, as if the person of peace were rejected by the house and so left, taking the apostles with him.[2] Nevertheless, the passage does not say that the apostles are to pray for peace, but to let their peace rest upon the house. It is still a custom for Jews to greet one another with 'Shalom', a blessing of peace.
Commentator Dale Allison suggests that "your peace" refers to the peace promised "for the eschatological age" (e.g. Isaiah 52:7): How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace. "The gift of peace is not just a social convention: the apostolic greeting should be understood as a sign of the inbreaking of the kingdom."[3]
