Luke 10:1-12

Good News Translation

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

10 After this the Lord chose another seventy-two^[a] men and sent them out two by two, to go ahead of him to every town and place where he himself was about to go. ²^(A)He said to them, “There is a large harvest, but few workers to gather it in. Pray to the owner of the harvest that he will send out workers to gather in his harvest. ³^(B)Go! I am sending you like lambs among wolves. ⁴Don't take a purse or a beggar's bag or shoes; don't stop to greet anyone on the road. ⁵Whenever you go into a house, first say, ‘Peace be with this house.’ ⁶If someone who is peace-loving lives there, let your greeting of peace remain on that person; if not, take back your greeting of peace. ⁷^(C)Stay in that same house, eating and drinking whatever they offer you, for workers should be given their pay. Don't move around from one house to another. ⁸Whenever you go into a town and are made welcome, eat what is set before you, ⁹heal the sick in that town, and say to the people there, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near you.’ ¹⁰^(D)But whenever you go into a town and are not welcomed, go out in the streets and say, ¹¹^(E)‘Even the dust from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. But remember that the Kingdom of God has come near you!’ ¹²^(F)I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to Sodom than to that town!