Luke 10:2-24

²“The harvest,” he said, “is abundant, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray to the owner of the harvest to send laborers to gather in his harvest.

³Now, go. Remember, I am sending you out as my messengers like lambs among wolves.

⁴Do not take a purse with you, or a bag, or sandals; and do not stop to greet anyone on your journey.

⁵Whatever house you go to stay at, begin by praying for a blessing on it.

⁶Then, if anyone there is deserving of a blessing, your blessing will rest on him; but if not, it will come back on yourselves.

⁷Remain at that same house, and eat and drink whatever they offer you; for the worker is worth their wages. Do not keep changing from one house to another.

⁸Whatever town you visit, if the people welcome you, eat what is set before you;

⁹cure the sick there, and tell people that the kingdom of God is close at hand.

¹⁰But, whatever town you go to visit, if the people do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say

¹¹‘We wipe off the dust of your town which has clung to Our feet; still, be assured that the kingdom of God is close at Hand.’

¹²I tell you that the doom of Sodom will be more bearable on that day than the doom of that town.

¹³Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For, if the Miracles which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have sat in sackcloth and ashes and repented long ago.

¹⁴Yet the doom of Tyre and Sidon will be more bearable at the judgment than yours.

¹⁵And you, Capernaum! Will you exalt yourself to heaven? You will be flung down to Hades.

¹⁶Anyone who listens to you is listening to me, and anyone who rejects you is rejecting me; while the person who rejects me is rejecting him who sent me as his messenger.”

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 learned, 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.”