Matthew 10:13
Matthew 10:13 is the thirteenth verse in the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Content In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort for 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. 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. Nevertheless, the passage does not say that the apostles are to pray for peace, but to let their