Luke 10:3-39

³“Go! Yes, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

⁴Do not carry a purse, nor a knapsack, nor sandals; and greet no one along the road.

⁵Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’

⁶If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him; but if not, it will return to you.

⁷Remain in that same house, eating and drinking what they offer, because the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

⁸“And into whatever town you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

⁹Heal the sick therein and say to them, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near to you.’

¹⁰But into whatever town you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say:

¹¹‘Even the dust of your town that clings to us we wipe off against you. Nonetheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.’

¹²I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that town.

¹³“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁴Nevertheless it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the Judgment than for you.

¹⁵And you, Capernaum, who are ‘exalted to heaven’, will be brought down to Hades.

¹⁶“He who listens to you listens to me, and he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects Him who sent me!”

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

¹⁸So He said to them: “I watched Satan fall like lightning out of heaven.

¹⁹Take note, I am giving you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing at all may harm you.

²⁰However, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”

²¹In that same hour Jesus exulted in His spirit and said: “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to ‘infants’. Yes, Father, because it pleased you to do so.”

²²And turning to the disciples He said: “All things have been entrusted to me by my Father; also, no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and to whomever the Son may choose to reveal Him.”

²³Then turning to His disciples privately He said: “Blessed are the eyes that are seeing the things that you see;

²⁴for I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you are seeing but did not, and to hear what you are hearing but did not.”

²⁵And then, a certain lawyer stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

²⁶So He said to him: “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”

²⁷In answer he said: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and, your neighbor as yourself.”

²⁸So He said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live!”

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

³⁰By way of reply Jesus said: “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and as it chanced he ran into robbers, who after having stripped and wounded him, departed, leaving him half dead.

³¹Now by coincidence a certain priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.

³²So too, a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side.

³³But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came by there, and upon seeing him was moved with compassion;

³⁴and going to him he bound up his wounds, applying oil and wine. Then he placed him on his own mount, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

³⁵On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, ‘Take care of him; and should you spend more, I will repay you when I return.’

³⁶So which of these three, would you say, was ‘neighbor’ to him who ran into the robbers?”

³⁷He said, “The one who showed mercy on him.” So Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise!”

³⁸Now it happened as they traveled that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house.

³⁹And she had a sister called Mary, who actually sat at Jesus' feet listening to His words.