10After this, the Lord chose seventy-two ⁿ others and sent them out in pairs ahead of him into every town and place where he planned to go. ²He said to them, “There are a great many people to harvest, but there are only a few workers. So pray to God, who owns the harvest, that he will send more workers to help gather his harvest. ³Go now, but listen! I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. ⁴Don’t carry a purse, a bag, or sandals, and don’t waste time talking with people on the road. ⁵Before you go into a house, say, ‘Peace be with this house.’ ⁶If peace-loving people live there, your blessing of peace will stay with them, but if not, then your blessing will come back to you. ⁷Stay in the same house, eating and drinking what the people there give you. A worker should be given his pay. Don’t move from house to house. ⁸If you go into a town and the people welcome you, eat what they give you. ⁹Heal the sick who live there, and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is near you.’ ¹⁰But if you go into a town, and the people don’t welcome you, then go into the streets and say, ¹¹‘Even the dirt from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. ⁿ But remember that the kingdom of God is near.’

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Luke 10:2: And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

Footnotes

nseventy-two Some Greek copies read “seventy.”
ndirt … you A warning. It showed that they had rejected these people.