差遣门徒

10 事后,主拣选了七十个门徒[a],差遣他们两个两个地出去,先到祂将要去的城镇村庄, 并对他们说:“要收割的庄稼很多,工人却很少,因此你们要祈求庄稼的主人派更多的工人去收割祂的庄稼。

“你们去吧!我差你们出去,就像把羊羔送入狼群。 钱袋、背包和鞋都不要带,在路上也不要与人寒暄。 无论到哪一户人家,要先说,‘愿祝福临到这家!’ 如果那里有配得祝福的人,祝福自然会临到那人,否则祝福仍归给你们。 不要搬来搬去,要固定住在一家,接受那家的款待,因为工人理应得到工钱。

“你们无论到哪一个城镇,如果人们接待你们,就吃他们摆上的饮食。 要医治那城里的病人,告诉他们,‘上帝的国临近你们了。’ 10 但如果哪一个城镇的人不欢迎你们,你们就到街上宣告, 11 ‘就连你们城里的尘土粘在我们脚上,我们都要跺掉,但是要知道,上帝的国临近了。’ 12 我告诉你们,在审判之日,那城所受的刑罚将比所多玛所受的还重!

13 “哥拉汛啊,你大祸临头了!伯赛大啊,你大祸临头了!我在你们当中所行的神迹,如果行在泰尔和西顿,那里的人早就身披麻衣,头蒙灰尘,坐在地上悔改了。 14 在审判之日,你们将比泰尔和西顿受更重的刑罚!

15 “迦百农啊,你将被提升到天上吗?不!你将被打落到阴间。”

16 耶稣继续对门徒说:“谁听从你们,就是听从我;谁拒绝你们,就是拒绝我;拒绝我的,就是拒绝差我来的那位。”

17 七十个门徒兴高采烈地回来说:“主啊,我们奉你的名行事,甚至降服了鬼魔。”

18 耶稣回答说:“我看见撒旦像闪电一样从天上坠下。 19 我已经给你们权柄,使你们能践踏蛇和蝎子,胜过仇敌的权势,没有什么能伤害你们。 20 然而,不要为了邪灵向你们降服而高兴,要因你们的名字记录在天上而高兴。”

21 就在这时候,耶稣受圣灵感动,充满喜乐地说:“父啊,天地的主,我颂赞你!因为你把这些事向聪明、有学问的人隐藏起来,却启示给像孩童一般的人。父啊!是的,这正是你的美意。 22 我父将一切交给了我。除了父,没有人认识子;除了子和受子启示的人,没有人认识父。”

23 随后,耶稣转身悄悄地对门徒说:“谁看到你们今日所看到的,谁就有福了。 24 我告诉你们,以前有许多先知和君王渴望看见你们所看见的,听见你们所听见的,却未能如愿。”

好撒玛利亚人的比喻

25 有一次,一名律法教师站起来试探耶稣,说:“老师,我应该怎样做才能得永生呢?”

26 耶稣反问他:“律法怎么说?你怎么理解?”

27 律法教师答道:“‘你要全心、全情、全力、全意爱主——你的上帝’,又要‘爱邻如己’。” 28 耶稣说:“你答得对,照着去做就有永生了。”

29 律法教师想证明自己有理,就问:“那么,谁是我的邻居呢?”

30 耶稣回答说:“有个人从耶路撒冷去耶利哥,途中被劫。强盗剥了他的衣服,把他打个半死,丢在那里,然后扬长而去。

31 “刚好有位祭司经过,看见那人躺在地上,连忙从旁边绕过,继续赶路。 32 又有个利未人经过,也跟先前那个祭司一样从旁边绕过去了。

33 “后来,有位撒玛利亚人[b]经过,看见这个人,就动了慈心, 34 连忙上前用油和酒替他敷伤口,包扎妥当,然后把他扶上自己骑的牲口,带到附近的客店照料。 35 次日还交给店主两个银币,说,‘请替我好好照顾这个人。如果钱不够的话,等我回来再补给你。’ 36 那么,你认为这三个人中谁是被劫者的邻居呢?”

37 律法教师说:“是那个同情他的人。”

耶稣说:“你去照样做吧。”

上好的福分

38 耶稣和门徒去耶路撒冷的途中路过一个村庄,遇到一位名叫玛大的女子接待他们到家里作客。 39 玛大的妹妹玛丽亚坐在耶稣脚前听道, 40 玛大为了招待客人忙乱不已,于是上前对耶稣说:

“主啊,我妹妹让我一个人伺候大家,你都不管吗?请你叫她来帮帮我吧。”

41 耶稣对她说:“玛大,玛大,你为太多事情忧虑烦恼。 42 其实最要紧的事只有一件,玛丽亚选择了上好的,是夺不走的。”

Footnotes

  1. 10:1 七十个门徒”有古卷为“七十二个门徒”。
  2. 10:33 犹太人向来轻视撒玛利亚人,认为他们血统不纯正,因此互不往来。

10 Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to come.

And he said to them, The harvest indeed [is] great, but the workmen few; supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest that he may send out workmen into his harvest.

Go: behold *I* send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves.

Carry neither purse nor scrip nor sandals, and salute no one on the way.

And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace to this house.

And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it; but if not it shall turn to you again.

And in the same house abide, eating and drinking such things as they have; for the workman is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house.

And into whatsoever city ye may enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you,

and heal the sick in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God is come nigh to you.

10 But into whatsoever city ye may have entered and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,

11 Even the dust of your city, which cleaves to us on the feet, do we shake off against you; but know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh.

12 I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that city.

13 Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

15 And *thou*, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven, shalt be brought down even to hades.

16 He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.

17 And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us through thy name.

18 And he said to them, I beheld Satan as lightning falling out of heaven.

19 Behold, I give you the power of treading upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise injure you.

20 Yet in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice that your names are written in the heavens.

21 In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes: yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy sight.

22 All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son is pleased to reveal [him].

23 And having turned to the disciples privately he said, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see.

24 For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things which ye behold, and did not see [them]; and to hear the things which ye hear, and did not hear [them].

25 And behold, a certain lawyer stood up tempting him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, shall I inherit life eternal?

26 And he said to him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

27 But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself.

28 And he said to him, Thou hast answered right: this do and thou shalt live.

29 But he, desirous of justifying himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

30 And Jesus replying said, A certain man descended from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into [the hands of] robbers, who also, having stripped him and inflicted wounds, went away leaving him in a half-dead state.

31 And a certain priest happened to go down that way, and seeing him, passed on on the opposite side;

32 and in like manner also a Levite, being at the spot, came and looked [at him] and passed on on the opposite side.

33 But a certain Samaritan journeying came to him, and seeing [him], was moved with compassion,

34 and came up [to him] and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine; and having put him on his own beast, took him to [the] inn and took care of him.

35 And on the morrow [as he left], taking out two denarii he gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou shalt expend more, *I* will render to thee on my coming back.

36 Which [now] of these three seems to thee to have been neighbour of him who fell into [the hands of] the robbers?

37 And he said, He that shewed him mercy. And Jesus said to him, Go, and do *thou* likewise.

38 And it came to pass as they went that *he* entered into a certain village; and a certain woman, Martha by name, received him into her house.

39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also, having sat down at the feet of Jesus was listening to his word.

40 Now Martha was distracted with much serving, and coming up she said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Speak to her therefore that she may help me.

41 But Jesus answering said to her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things;

42 but there is need of one, and Mary has chosen the good part, the which shall not be taken from her.

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two(A)(B)(C)

10 After this the Lord(D) appointed seventy-two[a] others(E) and sent them two by two(F) ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.(G) 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.(H) Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.(I) Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.

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

“When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you.(K) Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God(L) has come near to you.’ 10 But 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.(M) Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.’(N) 12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom(O) than for that town.(P)

13 “Woe to you,(Q) 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(R) and ashes. 14 But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum,(S) 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.”(T)

17 The seventy-two(U) returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”(V)

18 He replied, “I saw Satan(W) fall like lightning from heaven.(X) 19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes(Y) and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. 20 However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”(Z)

21 At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.(AA) Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

22 “All things have been committed to me by my Father.(AB) No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”(AC)

23 Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. 24 For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”(AD)

The Parable of the Good Samaritan(AE)

25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”(AF)

26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”

27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’[c];(AG) and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d](AH)

28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”(AI)

29 But he wanted to justify himself,(AJ) so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.(AK) 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan,(AL) as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii[e] and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’

36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”

Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”

At the Home of Martha and Mary

38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha(AM) opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary,(AN) who sat at the Lord’s feet(AO) listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care(AP) that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”

41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried(AQ) and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one.[f](AR) Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

Footnotes

  1. Luke 10:1 Some manuscripts seventy; also in verse 17
  2. Luke 10:15 That is, the realm of the dead
  3. Luke 10:27 Deut. 6:5
  4. Luke 10:27 Lev. 19:18
  5. Luke 10:35 A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer (see Matt. 20:2).
  6. Luke 10:42 Some manuscripts but only one thing is needed

10 And after these things, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu gave smichah to shivim (seventy) others and sent them on ahead of him shnayim shnayim (two by two) into every shtetl and place where he was about to arrive.

And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, Indeed the Katzir is plentiful, but the poalim of the Katzir are few; therefore, ask the Adon of the Katzir that he might send out poalim into his Katzir.

Go I send you as kevasim (sheep) into the midst of ze’evim (wolves).

Do not carry a bag for kesef, nor a schnorrer’s sack (beggar’s bag), nor sandals, and, along the derech, dispense with time-consuming Birkat Shalom’s.

Into whatever bais you enter, first say, Shalom to this bais.

And if there is a ben hashalom there, your shalom will rest upon him. Otherwise, on you it will return.

Remain in the same bais eating and drinking the things with them. For worthy is the poel (worker) of his loin (wages). Do not move from bais to bais.

And into whichever shtetl you enter and they receive you, eat the okhel (food) being set before you,

And give refuah (healing) to the cholim (sick people) and say to them, The Malchut Hashem has come near you.

10 And into whatever shtetl you enter and they do not receive you, having gone out into the rekhovot (streets) of that shtetl,

11 Say, Even the [Goyishe unclean] dust from your shtetl, which clings to us, we shake off from our feet as an omen of din (judgment) against you. But have daas of this, that the Malchut Hashem has come near.

12 I [Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach] say to you, that for Sdom in Yom HaHu [Yom HaDin, the Day of Judgment] it will be more bearable than it will be for that shtetl.

13 Woe to you, Korazin, oy to you, Beit-Tzaidah, because if in Tzor and Tzidon had occurred the gevurot that have happened in you, long ago, they, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, would have made teshuva.

14 But for Tzor and Tzidon it will be more bearable in the Yom HaDin than for you.

15 And you, Kfar-Nachum, surely not up to Shomayim will you be exalted? To Gehinnom you will descend!

16 The one listening to you listens to me [Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach], and the one rejecting you, rejects me [Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach]. But the one rejecting me [Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach], rejects the One [the G-d of Yisroel] who sent me.

17 And the Shivim returned with simcha, saying, Adoneinu, even the shedim submit to us bShem of you [Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, Yeshua].

18 And he said to them, I was seeing Hasatan falling like lightning from Shomayim. [YESHAYAH 14:12]

19 Hinei I have given to you the koach and the samchut to walk on nechashim (snakes) and akrabim (scorpions), and on all the koach of HaOyev, and nothing may by any means injure you.

20 But in this do not have a lev sameach, on account of the ruchot submitting to you, but have lev sameach that your shemot have been inscribed in Shomayim.

21 In the same hour Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was full of simcha by the Ruach Hakodesh. And he said, Baruch Hashem, Avi, Adon HaShomayim vHaAretz, that You concealed these things from those with chochmah and seichel and You revealed them to yeladim. Ken, Avi, for thus it was well pleasing in Your sight.

22 Everything was handed over to me by Avi, and no one has daas of HaBen except HaAv. And no one has daas of HaAv except HaBen, and whomever HaBen wishes to reveal Him.

23 And, having turned to the talmidim in a yechidus, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Ashrey [are] the eyes seeing what you see.

24 For I say to you that many neviim and melachim wanted to see what you see and they did not see them, and to hear what you hear and they did not hear them.

25 And a certain Talmid Chacham, a Baal Torah, stood up, testing Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Rabbi, what mitzvah must I do to inherit Chayyei Olam?

26 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, In the Torah what has been written? How do you read it?

27 And in reply the Baal Torah said, VAHAVTA ES ADONOI ELOHECHA BKHOL LVAVCHA UVECHOL NAFSHECHA UVECHOL MODECHA [DEVARIM 6:4,5] and L’REACHA KAMOCHA [DEVARIM 6:5; VAYIKRA 19:18]

28 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Your answer is frum. Richtik. Do this and you will live.

29 But because the Baal Torah wanted to justify himself, to be yitzdak im Hashem (justified with G-d, IYOV 25:4) on the basis of his own zchus (merit) he said to him, And who is my REA (neighbor)?

30 In reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, A certain ish was coming down from Yerushalayim to Yericho, and he encountered shodedim. They stripped him and inflicted a klap, more than one, and they went away and left him half dead.

31 It so happened that a certain kohen was coming down by that derech, and, having seen him, he passed by on the other side. [VAYIKRA 21:1-3]

32 And likewise also a Levi happened upon the place, but when he came and saw him, he passed by on the other side.

33 But a certain Shomroni, traveling along on the derech, came upon him; and when he saw him, he was filled with rachmei shomayim.

34 And when this Shomroni approached, he bandaged the man’s wounds, pouring shemen and yayin over them; and when he had placed him upon his own donkey, he brought the man to a malon and cared for him.

35 And on the next day he produced two denarii and gave them to the inn keeper of the malon and said, Take care of him, and whatever you spend additionally, I will take care of, when I return.

36 Who of these shalosha seems to you to have become a re’a to the one having fallen among the shodedim?

37 And the Baal Torah answered, The one having shown the man rachamim. And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Go and do likewise.

38 And while they were on the derech, he entered into a certain shtetl. And a certain isha by name of Marta received him.

39 And this isha had an achot named Miryam, who sat down at the feet of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu listening to his dvar.

40 But Marta was distracted with much badinen. And having stood by, she said, Adoneinu, is it of no concern to you that my achot has left me alone to serve? Speak, then, to her to help me.

41 And in reply Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu said to her, Marta, Marta, you are anxious and worried about many things,

42 But one is necessary. For Miryam chose HaTov which will not be taken away from her.