Luke 10:1-17

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

2He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

3Go! I am sending you out like lambs surrounded by wolves.

4Do not carry a money bag, a traveler’s bag, or sandals, and greet no one on the road.

5Whenever you enter a house, first say, ‘May peace be on this house!’

6And if a peace-loving person is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you.

7Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

8Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you, eat what is set before you.

9Heal the sick in that town and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come upon you!’

10But whenever you enter a town and the people do not welcome you, go into its streets and say,

11‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this: The kingdom of God has come.’

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

13“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles 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 bearable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you!

15And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades!

16“The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

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