Luke 10:1-20 - The Seventy-Two Appointed And Sent Out

¹ After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on before Him, two by two, to every town or place which He was going to visit. ² So He was saying to them: "The harvest is plentiful, but the reapers are scarce. So pray the Lord of the harvest to send out reapers to His harvest-field. ³ Go on. Listen! I am sending you out as lambs surrounded by wolves. ⁴ Do not carry a purse, a bag, or shoes, and do not stop to say 'Good morning' to anybody on the road. ⁵ Whenever you go to a house for headquarters, first say, 'Peace to this household.' ⁶ And if anyone there loves peace, your peace will come upon him; but if not, it will come back to you. ⁷ Stay on at the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the workman deserves his support. Do not keep moving about from house to house. ⁸ And if you go into any town and they welcome you, continue to eat what is offered you, ⁹ to cure the sick there, and to say, 'The kingdom of God is close upon you.' ¹⁰ But if you go into any town and they do not welcome you, go out into the streets and say, ¹¹ 'We are wiping off against you the very dust from your town that has stuck to our feet. But understand this, the kingdom of God is close by.' ¹² I tell you, on that day the punishment will be lighter for Sodom than for that town.

¹³ A curse on you, Chorazin! A curse on you, Bethsaida! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ But at the judgment the punishment will be lighter for Tyre and Sidon than for you. ¹⁵ And you, Capernaum, are you to be exalted to heaven? No, you are to go down to the regions of the dead. ¹⁶ Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever pays no attention to you pays no attention to me, and whoever pays no attention to me pays no attention to Him who sent me."

¹⁷ Now the seventy returned and joyously reported, "Lord, even the demons are submitting to us in your name."

¹⁸ He said to them, "I was looking at Satan failing like a flash of lightning from heaven. ¹⁹ Listen! I have given you power to tread on snakes and scorpions, and to trample on all the power of the enemy, and nothing at all will ever harm you. ²⁰ However, you must stop rejoicing over the fact that the spirits are submitting to you, but continue to rejoice that your names are enrolled in heaven."