Luke 10–12

CHAPTER 10

The Seventy Sent Out

¹Now after this ^athe Lord appointed ¹seventy ^bothers, and sent them ^cin pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come.

²And He was saying to them, “^aThe harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.

³“Go! ^aBehold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.

⁴“^aCarry no money belt, no bag, no sandals, and greet no one on the way.

⁵“Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’

⁶“And if a ¹man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him, but if not, it will return to you.

⁷“Stay in ¹that house, eating and drinking ²what they give you; for ^athe laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not keep moving from house to house.

⁸“And whatever city you enter and they receive you, ^aeat what is set before you;

⁹and heal those in it who are sick, and say to them, ‘^aThe kingdom of God has come near to you.’

¹⁰“But in whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,

¹¹‘^aEven the dust of your city which clings to our feet we wipe off against you; yet know this, that ^bthe kingdom of God is at hand.’

¹²“I say to you, ^ait will be more tolerable in that day for ^bSodom than for that city.

¹³“^aWoe to you, ^bChorazin! Woe to you, ^cBethsaida! For if the ¹miracles had been performed in ^dTyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in ^2esackcloth and ashes.

¹⁴“But it will be more tolerable for ^aTyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

¹⁵“And you, ^aCapernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades!

¹⁶“^aThe one who listens to you listens to Me, and ^bthe one who rejects you rejects Me. And he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

The Joyful Results

¹⁷Now the ¹seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even ^athe demons are subject to us in Your name.”

¹⁸And He said to them, “I was watching ^aSatan fall from heaven like lightning.

¹⁹“Behold, I have given you authority to ^atread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you.

²⁰“Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that ^ayour names are recorded in heaven.”

^21aAt that very ¹time He rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I ²praise You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

²²“^aAll things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and ^bno one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”

^23aAnd turning to the disciples, He said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see,

²⁴for I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them.”

The Good Samaritan

^25aAnd behold, a ^bscholar of the Law stood up and was putting Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

²⁶And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”

²⁷And he answered and said, “^aYou shall love the ¹Lord 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 yourself.”

²⁸And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; ^ado this and you will live.”

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

³⁰Jesus replied and said, “A man was ^agoing down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and ¹beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.

³¹“And a priest happened to be going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

³²“Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

³³“But a ^aSamaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him, and when he saw him, he felt compassion.

³⁴“And he came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them, and he put him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

³⁵“And on the next day he took out two ¹denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, when I return I will repay you.’

³⁶“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?”

³⁷And he said, “The one who showed mercy toward him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do ¹the same.”

Martha and Mary

³⁸Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named ^aMartha welcomed Him into her home.

³⁹And she had a sister called ^aMary, who was also ^bseated at the Lord’s feet, listening to His word.

⁴⁰But ^aMartha was distracted with ¹all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the ²preparations alone? Then tell her to help me.”

⁴¹But the Lord answered and said to her, “^aMartha, Martha, you are ^bworried and bothered about so many things,

^42abut only one thing is necessary, for ^bMary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”

CHAPTER 11

The Lord’s Prayer

¹And it happened that while ¹Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.”

²And He said to them, “^aWhen you pray, say:

‘¹Father, hallowed be Your name.

Your kingdom come.

³‘Give us ^aeach day our ¹daily bread.

⁴‘And forgive us our sins,

For we ourselves also forgive everyone who ^ais indebted to us.

And lead us not into temptation.’”

⁵Then He said to them, “Which of you has a friend and will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,

⁶for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;

⁷and from inside he answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children ¹and I are in bed; I cannot rise up and give you anything.’

⁸“I tell you, even though he will not arise and give him anything because he is his friend, yet ^abecause of his ¹persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

⁹“So I say to you, ^1aask, and it will be given to you; ²seek, and you will find; ³knock, and it will be opened to you.

¹⁰“For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.

¹¹“But what father among you, if his son asks for a ¹fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

¹²“Or, if his son asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

¹³“^aIf you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your ¹heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

A Kingdom Divided

^14aAnd He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. Now it happened that when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the crowds marveled.

¹⁵But some of them said, “He casts out demons ^aby ^bBeelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”

¹⁶And others, testing Him, ^awere seeking from Him ¹a sign from heaven.

^17aBut He knew their thoughts and said to them, “¹Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a house divided against ²itself falls.

¹⁸“But if ^aSatan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by ^bBeelzebul.

¹⁹“And if I by ^aBeelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason, they will be your judges.

²⁰“But if I cast out demons by the ^afinger of God, then ^bthe kingdom of God has come upon you.

²¹“When ¹a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are ²undisturbed.

²²“But when someone stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, he takes away from him all his armor on which he had relied and distributes his plunder.

²³“^aHe who is not with Me is against Me and he who does not gather with Me, scatters.

²⁴“^aWhen the unclean spirit goes out of ¹a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’

²⁵“And when it comes, it finds it swept and put in order.

²⁶“Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

²⁷Now it happened that while ¹Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “^aBlessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed.”

²⁸But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are ^athose who hear the word of God and keep it.”

The Sign of Jonah

²⁹Now as the crowds were increasing, He began to say, “^aThis generation is a wicked generation; it ^bseeks ¹a sign, and yet no ²sign will be given to it but the ³sign of Jonah.

³⁰“For just as ^aJonah became ¹a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.

³¹“The ^aQueen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

³²“The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because ^athey repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

³³“^aNo one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.

³⁴“^aThe eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is ¹clear, your whole body also is full of light, but when it is ²bad, your body also is full of darkness.

³⁵“Therefore watch out that the light in you is not darkness.

³⁶“If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it will be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays.”

Woes to the Pharisees and Lawyers

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