Luke 10:17-42

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.”

25Then an expert in the law stood up to test him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

26“What is written in the law?” he asked him. “How do you read it?”

27He answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,” and “your neighbor as yourself.”

28“You’ve answered correctly,” he told him. “Do this and you will live.”

29But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

30Jesus took up the question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him up, and fled, leaving him half dead.

31A priest happened to be going down that road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

32In the same way, a Levite, when he arrived at the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

33But a Samaritan on his journey came up to him, and when he saw the man, he had compassion.

34He went over to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

35The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him. When I come back I’ll reimburse you for whatever extra you spend.’

36“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?”

37“The one who showed mercy to him,” he said. Then Jesus told him, “Go and do the same.”

38While they were traveling, he entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home.

39She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord’s feet and was listening to what he said.

40But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, and she came up and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to serve alone? So tell her to give me a hand.”

41The Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things,

42but one thing is necessary. Mary has made the right choice, and it will not be taken away from her.”