Luke 10:1–11

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-two

10After this the Lord chose another 72^l men and sent them out two by two, to go ahead of him to every town and place where he himself was about to go. ^2*He said to them, “There is a large harvest, but few workers to gather it in. Pray to the owner of the harvest that he will send out workers to gather in his harvest. ^3*Go! I am sending you like lambs among wolves. ^4*Don’t take a purse or a beggar’s bag or shoes; don’t stop to greet anyone on the road. ^5*Whenever you go into a house, first say, ‘Peace be with this house.’ ^6*If a peace-loving person lives there, let your greeting of peace remain on him; if not, take back your greeting of peace. ^7*Stay in that same house, eating and drinking whatever they offer you, for workers should be given their pay. Don’t move round from one house to another. ^8*Whenever you go into a town and are made welcome, eat what is set before you, ^9*heal the sick in that town, and say to the people there, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near you.’ ^10*But whenever you go into a town and are not welcomed, go out in the streets and say, ^11*‘Even the dust from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. But remember that the Kingdom of God has come near you!’