Jesus Sends Out the Seventy

1After this, the Lord appointed ¹⁵⁹seventy others and sent them on ahead, two by two, to every town and place where he himself was about to go.

2He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

3Now go on your way. Behold, I am sending you out like lambs in the midst of wolves.

4Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, and no sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.

5Whenever you enter a house, first say, ‘May peace be upon this house!’

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

7Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house.

8Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you.

9Heal the sick in that city and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has drawn near to you.’

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

11‘Even the dust that clings to ¹⁶⁰us from your town we wipe off against you. Yet know this: The kingdom of God has drawn near ¹⁶¹to you.’

12I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town.

Woe to the Unrepentant

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

14But it will be more tolerable at the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

15And yoʋ, Capernaum, ¹⁶²who have been exalted to heaven, will ¹⁶³be brought down to Hades.

16“He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

The Return of the Seventy

17When the ¹⁶⁴seventy returned, they were joyful and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in yoʋr name.”

18He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

19Behold, I ¹⁶⁵am giving you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and to overcome all the power of the enemy, and nothing at all will harm you.

20Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, ¹⁶⁶but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Jesus Rejoices in the Spirit

21At that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the ¹⁶⁷Spirit and said, “I praise yoʋ, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because yoʋ have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in yoʋr ¹⁶⁸sight.”

22Then he turned to the disciples and said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

23Then he turned to the disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

24For I tell you that many prophets and kings wished to see the things you see but did not see them, and to hear the things you hear but did not hear them.”

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

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

26Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do yoʋ read it?”

27He answered, “Yoʋ shall love the Lord yoʋr God with all yoʋr heart, with all yoʋr soul, with all yoʋr strength, and with all yoʋr mind; and yoʋ shall love yoʋr neighbor as yoʋrself.”

28Jesus said to him, “Yoʋ have answered correctly; do this and yoʋ will live.”

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

30Jesus replied, “A man was going down to Jericho from Jerusalem and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him ¹⁶⁹as he was, half dead.

31Now a priest happened to be going down that road, but when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.

32In the same way, a Levite, when he came to that place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

33But a Samaritan, who was on a journey, came to where the man was, and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion.

34He went over to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

35On the next ¹⁷⁰day, when he was departing, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said ¹⁷¹to him, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more yoʋ spend I will repay to yoʋ when I return.’

36¹⁷²Now which of these three do yoʋ think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

37The lawyer said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

Jesus Visits Martha and Mary

38As Jesus and his disciples went along, he entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him ¹⁷³into her home.

39She had a sister named Mary, who sat at ¹⁷⁴Jesus' feet and listened to what he was saying.

40But Martha was distracted by the many preparations that had to be made. So she came up to Jesus and said, “Lord, do yoʋ not care that my sister has left me to make all the preparations by myself? Tell her then to assist me.”

41But ¹⁷⁵Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, yoʋ are anxious and troubled about many things,

42but only ¹⁷⁶one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”