Luke 10:17-26

¹⁷And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us through thy name.

¹⁸And he said to them, I beheld Satan as lightning falling out of heaven.

¹⁹Behold, I give you the power of treading upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise injure you.

²⁰Yet in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice that your names are written in the heavens.

²¹In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes: yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy sight.

²²All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son is pleased to reveal him.

²³And having turned to the disciples privately he said, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see.

²⁴For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things which ye behold, and did not see them; and to hear the things which ye hear, and did not hear them.

²⁵And behold, a certain lawyer stood up tempting him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, shall I inherit life eternal?

²⁶And he said to him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?