Luke 10:4-20

⁴Do not take along any money in a purse. Do not take a traveler's bag. Do not take extra sandals. Do not spend a lot of time greeting people along the way.

⁵Whenever you enter a house to lodge there, first say to those people, ‘May God give inner peace to you people MTY in this house!’

⁶If people who live there are ◄desiring to have/worthy of receiving► God's peace, they will experience the inner peace that you are offering them. If people who live there are not desiring to have God's peace, you will experience God's inner peace, but they will not.

⁷If they welcome you, stay in that same house until you leave that village. Do not move around from one house to another. Eat and drink whatever they provide for you. A worker deserves to get pay MET from the people for whom he works, so you deserve to receive food and a place to stay from the people to whom you go.

⁸Whenever you enter a town and the people there welcome you, eat what is provided {what they provide} for you.

⁹Heal the people there who are sick. Tell them, ‘It is almost time for God to send his king to rule MET your lives.’

¹⁰But if you enter a town whose people do not welcome you, go into its main streets and say,

¹¹‘ Because you have refused to hear our message, we(exc) will not only leave, we will also shake off the dust of your town that clings to our sandals, to warn you that God will reject/punish you. But we want you to know that it is almost the time when God will start to rule!’

¹²I will tell you this: On the MTY final day when God judges everyone, he will punish the wicked people MTY who long ago lived in Sodom, the city that he destroyed because its people were so wicked. But he will punish even more severely the people MTY of any town whose people refused to hear your message!”

¹³“There will be terrible punishment for you people who live in MTY Chorazin and Bethsaida cities. I did great miracles in your cities to show God's power, but you did not turn from your sinful behavior. If the miracles that I performed in your cities had been done in Tyre and Sidon cities, the wicked people who lived there would have long ago shown that they were sorry for their sins by sitting on the ground wearing coarse cloth and putting ashes on their heads.

¹⁴But they did not have the opportunity that you have, so when God punishes people, he will punish the wicked people who lived in Tyre and Sidon, but he will punish you more severely because you did not pay attention to my message.

¹⁵I also have something to say to you people who live in Capernaum city. ◄Do not think that you will be honored { that God will honor you} in heaven!/Do you think that you will be honored { that God will honor you} in heaven?► RHQ That will not happen! On the contrary, after you die, God will send you down to the place where sinful people will be punished forever!”

¹⁶Jesus also said to the disciples, “God will consider that those who listen to your message are listening to me, and that those who reject your message are rejecting me. And he will consider that those who reject me are rejecting God, the one who sent me.”

¹⁷The seventy-two people whom Jesus appointed went and did as he told them to. When they returned, they were very joyful. They said, “Lord, people did what we(exc) told them to do! Demons also obeyed us when by your (sg) authority MTY we commanded them to leave people!”

¹⁸Jesus replied, “ When those demons were obeying you, because God had enabled you to defeat them, it was as though MET I saw Satan fall from heaven as suddenly and quickly as lightning strikes.

¹⁹Listen! I have given you authority so that if you oppose evil spirits MET they will not hurt you. I have given you authority to defeat our enemy, Satan. Nothing shall hurt you.

²⁰But although you can rejoice that evil spirits obey you, you should rejoice more that your names have been written {that God has written your names} in heaven, because you will be with God forever.”