Book of Common Prayer

A Multitude Having Died In The Great Affliction Worship God Before His Throne

⁹ After these things I saw, and behold— there was a great multitude (which, no one was able to number it) from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, having been clothed-with^[a] white robes, and palm-branches in their hands. ¹⁰ And they are crying-out with a loud voice, saying “Salvation^[b] belongs to^[c] our God sitting on the throne and to the Lamb”. ¹¹ And all the angels were standing around the throne and the elders and the four living-creatures. And they fell on their faces before the throne and gave-worship to God, ¹² saying “Amen. The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the strength be to our God forever and ever, amen”. ¹³ And one of the elders responded, saying to me, “These ones having been clothed-with the white robes— who are they, and from where did they come?” ¹⁴ And I have said to him, “My lord, you know”. And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great affliction^[d]. And they washed their robes and made them white^[e] in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ For this reason, they are before the throne of God, and they are serving^[f] Him by day and by night in His temple. And the One sitting on the throne will dwell over them. ¹⁶ They will not hunger anymore, nor thirst anymore, nor may the sun fall upon them, nor any scorching-heat. ¹⁷ Because the Lamb at the center of the throne will shepherd them, and guide them to springs of the waters of life. And God will wipe-away^[g] every tear from their eyes”.

Jesus Sends Seventy-Two To The Cities Ahead of Him

10 And after these things, the Lord appointed seventy two^[a] others, and sent them out ahead of His presence two by two, to every city and place where He Himself was going to go.

Jesus Empowers Them And Instructs Them On How To Conduct Themselves

² And He was saying to them “The harvest is great, but the workers are few! Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest that He send-out workers into His harvest. ³ Go! Behold— I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. ⁴ Do not be carrying a money-bag^[b]; not a [traveler’s] bag, not sandals. And greet^[c] no one along the road. ⁵ And into whatever house you enter, first say ‘Peace on this house’. ⁶ And if a son of ^[d] peace is there, your peace will rest on him. Otherwise indeed, it will return to you. ⁷ And be staying in the very house, eating and drinking the things from them. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not be passing from house to house. ⁸ And into whatever city you enter and they welcome you, be eating the things being set-before you. ⁹ And be curing the sick ones in it. And be saying to them, ‘The kingdom of God has drawn-near to you’. ¹⁰ But into whatever city you enter and they do not welcome you, having gone out into its wide-roads, say ¹¹ ‘We are wiping-off against you even the dust having clung to us from your city— to our feet. Nevertheless know this: that the kingdom of God has drawn near’. ¹² I say to you that it will be more-tolerable^[e] on that day for Sodom than for that city! ¹³ Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Because if the miracles having taken place in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long-ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ Nevertheless^[f] it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. ¹⁵ And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted up to heaven? You will go-down as far as Hades. ¹⁶ The one listening-to you is listening-to Me. And the one rejecting you is rejecting Me. And the one rejecting Me is rejecting the One having sent Me forth”.