⁹ cure the sick who are there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’^{[a](A) 10} But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, ¹¹ ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.’^{[b](B) 12} I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town.^(C)

Woes to Unrepentant Cities

¹³ “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.^{(D) 14} Indeed, at the judgment it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon than for you. ¹⁵ And you, Capernaum,

¹⁶ “Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”^(F)

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷ The seventy-two^[c] returned with joy, saying, “Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!”^{(G) 18} He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.^{(H) 19} Indeed, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.^(I)