Luke 10:1–16

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

10:4–12pp—Lk 9:3–5 10:13–15,21,22pp—Mt 11:21–23,25–27 10:23,24pp—Mt 13:16,17

10After this the Lord^p appointed seventy-two^a others^q and sent them two by two^r ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.^{s 2}He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.^{t 3}Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.^{u 4}Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.

⁵“When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ ⁶If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you. ⁷Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages.^v Do not move around from house to house.

⁸“When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you.^{w 9}Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God^x has come near to you.’ ¹⁰But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, ¹¹‘Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you.^y Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.’^{z 12}I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom^a than for that town.^b

¹³“Woe to you,^c Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth^d and ashes. ¹⁴But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. ¹⁵And you, Capernaum,^e will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.^b

¹⁶“Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”^f