Luke 10:1-17

Common English Bible

Seventy-two sent out

10 After these things, the Lord commissioned seventy-two others and sent them on ahead in pairs to every city and place he was about to go. ²He said to them, “The harvest is bigger than you can imagine, but there are few workers. Therefore, plead with the Lord of the harvest to send out workers for his harvest. ³Go! Be warned, though, that I’m sending you out as lambs among wolves. ⁴Carry no wallet, no bag, and no sandals. Don’t even greet anyone along the way. ⁵Whenever you enter a house, first say, ‘May peace be on this house.’ ⁶If anyone there shares God’s peace, then your peace will rest on that person. If not, your blessing will return to you. ⁷Remain in this house, eating and drinking whatever they set before you, for workers deserve their pay. Don’t move from house to house. ⁸Whenever you enter a city and its people welcome you, eat what they set before you. ⁹Heal the sick who are there, and say to them, ‘God’s kingdom has come upon you.’ ¹⁰Whenever you enter a city and the people don’t welcome you, go out into the streets and say, ¹¹‘As a complaint against you, we brush off the dust of your city that has collected on our feet. But know this: God’s kingdom has come to you.’ ¹²I assure you that Sodom will be better off on Judgment Day than that city.

Judgment against cities that reject Jesus

¹³“How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin. How terrible it will be for you, Bethsaida. If the miracles done among you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed their hearts and lives long ago. They would have sat around in funeral clothes and ashes. ¹⁴But Tyre and Sidon will be better off at the judgment than you. ¹⁵And you, Capernaum, will you be honored by being raised up to heaven? No, you will be cast down to the place of the dead. ¹⁶Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”