Luke 10:1-24.
Luke 10:1-24 (Good News Translation)
1After this the Lord chose another seventy-two
men and sent them out two by two, to go ahead of him to every
town and place where he himself was about to go.
2He said to them,
There is a large harvest, but few workers to gather it in. Pray
to the owner of the harvest that he will send out workers to gather in his
harvest.
3Go! I am sending you like lambs among wolves.
4Don't take a purse or a beggar's bag or shoes; don't stop to
greet anyone on the road.
5Whenever you go into a house, first say,
“Peace be with this house.”
6If someone who is peace-loving lives there, let your greeting
of peace remain on that person; if not, take back your greeting of peace.
7Stay in that same house, eating and drinking whatever they
offer you, for workers should be given their pay. Don't move around from
one house to another.
8Whenever you go into a town and are made welcome, eat what is
set before you,
9heal the sick in that town, and say to the people there,
“The Kingdom of God has come near you.”
10But whenever you go into a town and are not welcomed, go out
in the streets and say,
11“Even the dust from your town that sticks to our feet
we wipe off against you. But remember that the Kingdom of God has come
near you!”
12I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more
mercy to Sodom than to that town!
13How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible for
you too, Bethsaida! If the miracles which were performed in you had been
performed in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have long ago sat
down, put on sackcloth, and sprinkled ashes on themselves, to show that
they had turned from their sins!
14God will show more mercy on the Judgment Day to Tyre and
Sidon than to you.
15And as for you, Capernaum! Did you want to lift yourself up
to heaven? You will be thrown down to hell!
16Jesus said to his disciples,
“Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you
rejects me; and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
17The seventy-two
men came back in great joy.
“Lord,” they said,
“even the demons obeyed us when we gave them a command in
your name!”
18Jesus answered them,
I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
19Listen! I have given you authority, so that you can walk on
snakes and scorpions and overcome all the power of the Enemy, and nothing
will hurt you.
20But don't be glad because the evil spirits obey you; rather
be glad because your names are written in heaven.
21At that time Jesus was filled with joy by the Holy Spirit
and said,
Father, Lord of heaven and earth! I thank you because you have
shown to the unlearned what you have hidden from the wise and learned.
Yes, Father, this was how you were pleased to have it happen.
22“My Father has given me all things. No one knows who
the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except
the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
23Then Jesus turned to the disciples and said to them
privately,
How fortunate you are to see the things you see!
24I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what
you see, but they could not, and to hear what you hear, but they did not.
1After this the Lord chose another seventy-two
men and sent them out two by two, to go ahead of him to every
town and place where he himself was about to go.
2He said to them,
There is a large harvest, but few workers to gather it in. Pray
to the owner of the harvest that he will send out workers to gather in his
harvest.
3Go! I am sending you like lambs among wolves.
4Don't take a purse or a beggar's bag or shoes; don't stop to
greet anyone on the road.
5Whenever you go into a house, first say,
“Peace be with this house.”
6If someone who is peace-loving lives there, let your greeting
of peace remain on that person; if not, take back your greeting of peace.
7Stay in that same house, eating and drinking whatever they
offer you, for workers should be given their pay. Don't move around from
one house to another.
8Whenever you go into a town and are made welcome, eat what is
set before you,
9heal the sick in that town, and say to the people there,
“The Kingdom of God has come near you.”
10But whenever you go into a town and are not welcomed, go out
in the streets and say,
11“Even the dust from your town that sticks to our feet
we wipe off against you. But remember that the Kingdom of God has come
near you!”
12I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more
mercy to Sodom than to that town!
13How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible for
you too, Bethsaida! If the miracles which were performed in you had been
performed in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have long ago sat
down, put on sackcloth, and sprinkled ashes on themselves, to show that
they had turned from their sins!
14God will show more mercy on the Judgment Day to Tyre and
Sidon than to you.
15And as for you, Capernaum! Did you want to lift yourself up
to heaven? You will be thrown down to hell!
16Jesus said to his disciples,
“Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you
rejects me; and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
17The seventy-two
men came back in great joy.
“Lord,” they said,
“even the demons obeyed us when we gave them a command in
your name!”
18Jesus answered them,
I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
19Listen! I have given you authority, so that you can walk on
snakes and scorpions and overcome all the power of the Enemy, and nothing
will hurt you.
20But don't be glad because the evil spirits obey you; rather
be glad because your names are written in heaven.
21At that time Jesus was filled with joy by the Holy Spirit
and said,
Father, Lord of heaven and earth! I thank you because you have
shown to the unlearned what you have hidden from the wise and learned.
Yes, Father, this was how you were pleased to have it happen.
22“My Father has given me all things. No one knows who
the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except
the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
23Then Jesus turned to the disciples and said to them
privately,
How fortunate you are to see the things you see!
24I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what
you see, but they could not, and to hear what you hear, but they did not.
God bless you.
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