Luke 10:1-24

1After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others, and he sent them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself was about to go.

2He told them, “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

3Now go; I’m sending you out like lambs among wolves.

4Don’t carry a money-bag, traveling bag, or sandals; don’t greet anyone along the road.

5Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this household.’

6If a person of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

7Remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for the worker is worthy of his wages. Don’t move from house to house.

8When you enter any town, and they welcome you, eat the things set before you.

9Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near you.’

10When you enter any town, and they don’t welcome you, go out into its streets and say,

11‘We are wiping off even the dust of your town that clings to our feet as a witness against you. Know this for certain: The kingdom of God has come near.’

12I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town.

13“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

14But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

15And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades.

16Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

17The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”

18He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

19Look, I have given you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy; nothing at all will harm you.

20However, don’t rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

21At that time he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.

22All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal him.”

23Then turning to his disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see the things you see!

24For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see the things you see but didn’t see them; to hear the things you hear but didn’t hear them.”