¹³“How terrible for you, Korazin! How terrible for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles I did in you had happened in Tyre and Sidon, ⁿ those people would have changed their lives long ago. They would have worn rough cloth and put ashes on themselves to show they had changed. ¹⁴But on the Judgment Day it will be better for Tyre and Sidon than for you. ¹⁵And you, Capernaum, ⁿ will you be lifted up to heaven? No! You will be thrown down to the depths!

¹⁶“Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever refuses to accept you refuses to accept me. And whoever refuses to accept me refuses to accept the One who sent me.”

Satan Falls

¹⁷When the seventy-two ⁿ came back, they were very happy and said, “Lord, even the demons obeyed us when we used your name!”

¹⁸Jesus said, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. ¹⁹Listen, I have given you power to walk on snakes and scorpions, power that is greater than the enemy has. So nothing will hurt you. ²⁰But you should not be happy because the spirits obey you but because your names are written in heaven.”

Jesus Prays to the Father

²¹Then Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the people who are wise and smart. But you have shown them to those who are like little children. Yes, Father, this is what you really wanted.

²²“My Father has given me all things. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father. And no one knows who the Father is, except the Son and those whom the Son chooses to tell.”

²³Then Jesus turned to his followers and said privately, “You are blessed to see what you now see. ²⁴I tell you, many prophets and kings wanted to see what you now see, but they did not, and they wanted to hear what you now hear, but they did not.”

The Good Samaritan

²⁵Then an expert on the law stood up to test Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to get life forever?”

²⁶Jesus said, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”

²⁷The man answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.” ⁿ Also, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” ⁿ

²⁸Jesus said to him, “Your answer is right. Do this and you will live.”

²⁹But the man, wanting to show the importance of his question, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

³⁰Jesus answered, “As a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, some robbers attacked him. They tore off his clothes, beat him, and left him lying there, almost dead. ³¹It happened that a priest was going down that road. When he saw the man, he walked by on the other side. ³²Next, a Levite ⁿ came there, and after he went over and looked at the man, he walked by on the other side of the road. ³³Then a Samaritan ⁿ traveling down the road came to where the hurt man was. When he saw the man, he felt very sorry for him. ³⁴The Samaritan went to him, poured olive oil and wine ⁿ on his wounds, and bandaged them. Then he put the hurt man on his own donkey and took him to an inn where he cared for him. ³⁵The next day, the Samaritan brought out two coins, ⁿ gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of this man. If you spend more money on him, I will pay it back to you when I come again.’ ”

³⁶Then Jesus said, “Which one of these three men do you think was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by the robbers?”

³⁷The expert on the law answered, “The one who showed him mercy.”

Jesus said to him, “Then go and do what he did.”

Read in Logos

Luke 10:20: Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven…

Footnotes

nTyre and Sidon Towns where wicked people lived.
nKorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum Towns by Lake Galilee where Jesus preached to the people.
nseventy-two Some Greek copies read “seventy.”
n“Love … mind.” Quotation from Deuteronomy 6:5.
n“Love … yourself.” Quotation from Leviticus 19:18.
nLevite Levites were members of the tribe of Levi who helped the Jewish priests with their work in the Temple. Read 1 Chronicles 23:24–32.
nSamaritan Samaritans were people from Samaria. These people were part Jewish, but the Jews did not accept them as true Jews. Samaritans and Jews disliked each other.
nolive oil and wine Oil and wine were used like medicine to soften and clean wounds.
ncoins Roman denarii. One coin was the average pay for one day’s work.