The Seventy Return with Joy

¹⁷ Then ^(A)the ^[a]seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.”

¹⁸ And He said to them, ^(B)“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. ¹⁹ Behold, ^(C)I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. ²⁰ Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but ^[b]rather rejoice because ^(D)your names are written in heaven.”

^27 (A)No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.

² He laid hold of ^(A)the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;

³ and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and ^(A)set a seal on him, ^(B)so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.

Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial^(A)

^31 [a]And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, ^(B)Satan has asked for you, that he may ^(C)sift you as wheat.