What is "your peace" in Matthew 10?
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A similar passage in Luke:
Luke 10:5-6
5 Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this household.’ 6 If a peaceful person lives there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
See also Mark 6:8 . Here is the whole passage:
Matthew 10:12
12 As you enter a house, wish it peace. 13 If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; if not, let your peace return to you.* 14 Whoever will not receive you or listen to your words—go outside that house or town and shake the dust from your feet.
The note says: "The greeting of peace is conceived of not merely as a salutation but as an effective word. If it finds no worthy recipient, it will return to the speaker." Consider what happened after St Paul and St Barnabas were driven out of a city, and shook the dusk from their feet:
Acts 13:51
51 So they shook the dust from their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium. 52 The disciples were filled with joy and the holy Spirit.
See also:
Luke 2:14
14 “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
Peace is effectively a blessing, the favor of the Lord. If the blessing finds no worthy recipient, it will fall back on those who gave it. Those who St Paul and St Barnabas gave peace to would not have that peace, so the peace of the Lord fell back on the two men, and they were "filled with joy and the holy Spirit".
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“And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence. And when ye come into an house, salute it. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.” Matthew 10:11-13, KJV.
The question is what should we ( as disciples) be doing in order to follow this commandment of Jesus? St. Augustine gave a sermon on this, and when I get back to my computer, I will add some comment.
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I once heard Paul Martini preach on this passage at a Randy Clark Healing ministry conference. He posed that this peace of which Jesus was talking about was a tangible presence that one could quite literally give away or have return to oneself. He also made reference to Mark 4 when Jesus calms the storm. Some translations record Jesus saying 'Peace, be still.' Martini suggested that Jesus was actually releasing an atmosphere of peace, in the spiritual, that changed the circumstances in the natural.
After hearing this my wife and I thought we'd try it out. Not long after the conference we were having dinner with some friends. They have two crazy dogs that were really hyperactive the whole time we were there. They just wouldn't stay still or be quiet. Before leaving we prayed with our friends and prayed peace over them and their house. As we got up to leave we noticed that the feeling of the place had dramatically changed. It felt really peaceful, more than just relaxed. We also noticed that the two dogs that only minutes prior couldn't sit still, were lying on the floor completely at peace.
Since then we've made a habit of praying for peace and have seen time and time again God's peace change lives.
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The translators of the NLT viewed "peace" to mean a blessing which is how they translated it - see https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+10%3A11-13&version=NLT
The commentary in the Geneva Study Bible appears to agree with this in that it describes it as "an idiom taken from the Hebrews, by which they meant every type of happiness."
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I believe the Lord Jesus Christ is referring to the common salutation among Jews, שלום עליך (shalom aleikha) if greeting a singular male, or שלום עליכם (shalom aleikhem) if greeting a group of people (with at least one male). It means, "Peace be upon you" (cp. 3 John 1:14).
Hence, we find the Greek verb ἀσπάζομαι (aspazomai), meaning "to greet someone."
So, he is simply saying that the peace (שלום) will indeed come to that person/ home if they are deserving of it (in their treatment of the apostles), or it will not (it will return to the apostles whom spoke it).
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