Luke 10:9-32

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.”

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?”

²⁷His reply was — “You must 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 you love yourself.”

²⁸“You have answered right,” said Jesus; “do that, and you will live.”

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

³⁰To which Jesus replied, “A man was once going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him of everything, and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.

³¹As it chanced, a priest was going down by that road. He saw the man, but passed by on the opposite side.

³²A Levite, too, did the same; he came up to the spot, but, when he saw the man, passed by on the opposite side.