Jesus instructs and sends out seventy disciples
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📚✭After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to go. 2 📚Therefore he said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the workers are few. So pray the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth workers into his harvest. 3 📚Go your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. 4 📚✭Carry neither purse, nor bag, nor sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road. 5 📚And whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’ 6 📚And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on it; if not, it will return to you. 7 📚And stay in the same house, eating and drinking such things as they give, for the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house.
8 📚“And whatever city you enter, and are received, eat such things as are set before you. 9 📚✭And heal the sick who are there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ 10 📚But whatever city you enter, and are not received, go out into its streets and say, 11 📚‘The very dust of your city which sticks to us, we wipe off against you. But be sure of this, the kingdom of God has come near you.’ 12 📚But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day✭ for Sodom, than for that city.
13 📚“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented a long time ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 📚But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment, than for you.
15 📚“And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to hell✭!
16 📚“He who listens to you listens to me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me”.
17 📚✭And the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us through your name”.
18 📚✭And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 📚✭See, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing at all will harm you. 20 📚✭However, do not rejoice because the spirits submit to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven”.✭
21 📚✭In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and educated, and have revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for so it seemed good in your eyes.
Jesus reveals His deity
22 📚All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. And no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him”.
23 📚And he turned around to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see. 24 📚For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see them, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear them”.
The parable of the good Samaritan
25 📚And suddenly a certain lawyer✭ stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
26 📚✭He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”
27 📚✭And he answered and said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbour as yourself”.
28 📚✭And he said to him, “You have answered rightly. Do this, and you will live”.
29 📚But he, wanting to justify himself✭, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbour?”
30 📚✭✭And Jesus answered and said, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbers, who stripped him of his clothes, wounded him, and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 📚✭And by chance a certain priest came down that way. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 📚And so too a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked at him and passed by on the other side. 33 📚✭But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion on him, 34 📚and went to him, and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 📚And the next day when he was leaving, he took out two silver coins, gave them to the innkeeper and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend extra, I will repay you when I come again.’
36 📚✭“Now which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour to him who fell among the robbers?”
37 📚And he said, “The one who showed mercy to him”. Then Jesus said to him, “Go, and do the same”.
Jesus, Mary and Martha
38 📚✭Now it happened, as they were traveling along, that he entered a certain village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. 39 📚And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at Jesus’ feet and listened to his words. 40 📚✭But Martha was distracted with much serving, and came to him and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to serve alone? So tell her to help me”.