Luke 10:9-32

⁹and heal those who are sick. Tell them, ‘God's kingdom has come to you.’

¹⁰But if you enter a town and the people there don't welcome you, go through their streets telling them,

¹¹‘We are wiping off even the dust from your town that clings to our feet to show you our disapproval. But you should recognize this: God's kingdom has come.’

¹²I tell you, in the Day of Judgment it will be better for Sodom than for such a town.

¹³Shame on you Korazin! Shame on you Bethsaida! For if the miracles you saw happen had happened in Tyre and Sidon they would have repented a long time ago, and they would be sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁴That's why in the judgment it will be better for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

¹⁵And you, Capernaum, you won't be exalted to heaven; you will go down to Hades.

¹⁶Anyone who hears you hears me, and anyone who rejects you rejects me. But anyone who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

¹⁷The seventy disciples returned in great excitement, saying, “Lord, even the demons do what we tell them in your name!”

¹⁸Jesus replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

¹⁹Yes, I have given you power to tread on snakes and scorpions, and to overcome all the enemy's strength, and nothing will harm you.

²⁰But don't take delight that the spirits do what you tell them—just be glad that your names are written in heaven.”

²¹At that moment Jesus was filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for you hid these things from the wise and clever people and revealed them to children! Yes, Father, you were pleased to do it in this way.

²²My Father has handed over everything to me. No one understands the Son except the Father, and no one understands the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

²³When they were by themselves Jesus turned to the disciples and told them, “Those who see what you're seeing should be really happy!

²⁴I tell you, many prophets and kings have wanted to see what you're seeing, but they didn't see, and wanted to hear the things you're hearing, but didn't hear.”

²⁵Once an expert in religious law stood up and tried to trap Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “What do I have to do to gain eternal life?”

²⁶“What is written in the law? How do you read it?” asked Jesus.

²⁷“You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole spirit, and your whole strength, and your whole mind; and love your neighbor as yourself,” the man replied.

²⁸“You're right,” Jesus told him. “Do this, and you will live.”

²⁹But the man wanted to vindicate himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

³⁰Jesus replied, saying, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. He was attacked by robbers who stripped him and beat him, and left him for dead.

³¹It so happened that a priest was going the same way. He saw the man, but he passed by on the other side of the road.

³²Then a Levite came along. But when he got to the place and saw the man, he also passed by on the other side.