Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
Parallel translations
- WEB Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
- BSB Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.
- NKJV Go your way; behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
- NASB Go; behold, I am sending you out like lambs in the midst of wolves.
- NLT Now go, and remember that I am sending you out as lambs among wolves.
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Quick answer
Jesus sends them out as lambs among wolves. Mission carries real danger, yet the sent ones go under His authority.
Overview
The image of lambs among wolves frankly warns of hostility and vulnerability in the work. The messengers go not in their own strength but as those sent by the Lord. This sober realism prepares disciples to expect opposition while trusting the One who sends them.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Matt 10:16Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
- Acts 20:29For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
- Ezek 2:3–6And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
- John 15:20Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
- Matt 10:22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
- John 10:12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
- John 16:2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
- Matt 7:15Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
- Zeph 3:3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
- Ps 22:12–16Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
- Acts 9:2And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
- Acts 9:16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
- Ps 22:21Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
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