Luke 10:17-26

¹⁷When the seventy-two returned, they exclaimed joyfully, “Master, even the demons submit to us when we use your name.”

¹⁸And Jesus replied, “I have had visions of Satan, fallen, like lightning from the heavens.

¹⁹Remember, I have given you the power to trample on snakes and scorpions, and to meet all the strength of the Enemy. Nothing will ever harm you in any way.

²⁰Yet do not rejoice in the fact that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names have been enrolled in heaven.”

²¹At that same time, moved to exultation by the Holy Spirit, Jesus said: “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that, though you have hidden these things from the wise and learnt, you have revealed them to the childlike! Yes, Father, I thank you that this has seemed good to you.

²²Everything has been committed to me by my Father; nor does anyone know who the Son is, except the Father, or who the Father is, except the Son and those to whom the Son may choose to reveal him.”

²³Then, turning to his disciples, Jesus said to them alone, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you are seeing;

²⁴for, I tell you, many prophets and kings wished for the sight of the things which you are seeing, yet never heard them.”

²⁵Just then a Student of the Law came forward to test Jesus further. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do if I am to gain eternal life?”

²⁶“What is said in the Law?” answered Jesus. “What do you read there?”