New Testament · Gospels and Acts

Luke chapter 10

After this, the appointed others and sent them out ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he was about to visit.He told them, “The is massive, but the workers are few. So ask the owner of the harvest to send out more workers into his fields.”Now go. I’m sending you out like into a pack of wolves.Don’t bring a , a travel bag, or sandals. And don’t stop to make along the road.When you enter a house, first say, ‘ to this home.’If someone there is , your peace will rest on them. If not, it will come back to you.Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, because a . Don’t keep moving from house to house.When you enter a town and they welcome you, eat whatever is put in front of you.Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘ has arrived — it’s right here, right now.’But when you enter a town and they don’t welcome you, go out into the streets and say,‘Even the dust from your town that sticks to our feet — we’re as a warning to you. But know this: God’s kingdom has come close to you.’I’m telling you, on it will be more bearable for than for that town.How terrible for you, ! How terrible for you, Bethsaida! Because if the miracles done in your towns had been done in , they would have long ago, sitting in .But on judgment day, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon than for you.And you, — will you be lifted up to the heavens? No, you’ll be thrown down to .“Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects .”The seventy-two came back thrilled. “Lord,” they said, “even the submit to us when we use !”He said to them, “I watched fall from the sky like lightning.Look — I’ve given you authority to trample on and to overpower all the force of . Nothing will hurt you.But don’t be happy that the spirits submit to you. Be happy that your .”Right then, Jesus was overwhelmed with joy by and said, “I praise you, Father — Lord of heaven and earth — because you’ve hidden these things from the intellectuals and experts and revealed them to . Yes, Father, because this is exactly what you wanted.”“My Father has handed everything over to me. No one really knows who is except the Father, and no one really knows who the Father is except the Son — and anyone the Son chooses to reveal him to.”Then he turned to his privately and said, “ that your eyes see what you’re seeing.Because I’m telling you — many and kings wanted to see what you’re seeing and didn’t see it, and to hear what you’re hearing and didn’t hear it.”Then an stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what do I need to do to inherit ?”Jesus said to him, “What’s written in ? How do you read it?”He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with everything you are — all your , all your , all your strength, all your mind’ — and ‘Love your as yourself.’”“You got it right,” Jesus said. “Do this and you’ll live.”But wanting to , he asked Jesus, “So who exactly is my neighbor?”Jesus answered with a story: “A man was going down from when he was jumped by robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and left him lying there half dead.It just so happened that a was going down that same road. When he saw the man, he crossed to the other side and kept going.A came by the same spot. He looked at the man, then crossed to the other side and kept going too.But then a who was traveling came to where the man was. When he saw him, .He went to him, poured on his wounds and bandaged them. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.The next day he took out , gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him. Whatever else you spend, I’ll pay you back when I come through again.’“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who got jumped by the robbers?”The legal expert said, “The one who showed him .” Jesus said, “Go and do the same.”As they continued on their way, Jesus came to a village where a woman named opened her home to him.She had a sister named Mary, who listening to what he was saying.But Martha was she had to make. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her to come help me!”“,” the Lord answered, “you’re about so many things,but only really matters. Mary has chosen , and it’s not going to be taken from her.”