Behold] Luke 10. 3.
I send you] I shall send you, after my resurrection: for in this journey they had no want, or opposition, Luke 22:35. It is likely, that our Saviour being now to send them forth among the Jews, intermixed divers things that concerned their sending forth after his resurrection: as Chap. 24. speaking of the destruction of Jerusalem, he addes divers things concerning the end of the world.
as sheep] Altogether unarmed.
in the midst of wolves] Into great dangers, where ye shall be compassed about with wicked men, Psalms 57:4.
wise as serpents, &c.] Genesis 3:1. Seek to avoid danger as far as lawfully you may, and give no just cause to them to persecute you: Be like serpents in the one, who avoid dangers by flying and hiding themselves, and like doves in the other, who do nothing to provoke.
harmlesse] Or, simple.