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stand; if they are not, the blessing will return
to you. 7 Don’t move around from home to home.
Stay in one place, eating and drinking what they
provide. Don’t hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve their pay.
8 “If you enter a town and it welcomes you,
eat whatever is set before you. 9 Heal the sick,
and tell them, ‘The Kingdom of God is near you
now.’ 10 But if a town refuses to welcome you,
go out into its streets and say, 11 ‘We wipe even
the dust of your town from our feet to show that
we have abandoned you to your fate. And know
this—the Kingdom of God is near!’ 12 I assure
you, even wicked Sodom will be better off than
such a town on judgment day.
13 “What sorrow awaits you, Korazin and
Bethsaida! For if the miracles I did in you had
been done in wicked Tyre and Sidon, their
people would have repented of their sins long
ago, clothing themselves in burlap and throwing ashes on their heads to show their remorse.
14 Yes, Tyre and Sidon will be better off on judgment day than you. 15 And you people of Capernaum, will you be honored in heaven? No, you
will go down to the place of the dead.*”
16 Then he said to the disciples, “Anyone who
accepts your message is also accepting me. And
anyone who rejects you is rejecting me. And
anyone who rejects me is rejecting God, who
sent me.”
17 When the seventy-two disciples returned,
they joyfully reported to him, “Lord, even the
demons obey us when we use your name!”
18 “Yes,” he told them, “I saw Satan fall from
heaven like lightning! 19 Look, I have given you
authority over all the power of the enemy, and
you can walk among snakes and scorpions
and crush them. Nothing will injure you. 20 But
don’t rejoice because evil spirits obey you;
rejoice because your names are registered in
heaven.”
Jesus’ Prayer of Thanksgiving
21 At that same time Jesus was filled with the
joy of the Holy Spirit, and he said, “O Father,
Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding
these things from those who think themselves
wise and clever, and for revealing them to the
childlike. Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it
this way.
22 “My Father has entrusted everything to me.
No one truly knows the Son except the Father,
and no one truly knows the Father except the
Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
23 Then when they were alone, he turned to
the disciples and said, “Blessed are the eyes
that see what you have seen. 24 I tell you, many
prophets and kings longed to see what you see,
but they didn’t see it. And they longed to hear
what you hear, but they didn’t hear it.”
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The Most Important Commandment
25 One day an expert in religious law stood up to
test Jesus by asking him this question: “Teacher,
what should I do to inherit eternal life?”
26 Jesus replied, “What does the law of Moses
say? How do you read it?”
27 The man answered, “‘You must love the
Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul,
all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love
your neighbor as yourself.’”*
28 “Right!” Jesus told him. “Do this and you
will live!”
29 The man wanted to justify his actions, so he
asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Parable of the Good Samaritan
30 Jesus replied with a story: “A Jewish man was
traveling from Jerusalem down to Jericho, and
he was attacked by bandits. They stripped him
of his clothes, beat him up, and left him half
dead beside the road.
31 “By chance a priest came along. But when
he saw the man lying there, he crossed to the
other side of the road and passed him by.
32 A Temple assistant* walked over and looked
at him lying there, but he also passed by on the
other side.
33 “Then a despised Samaritan came along,
and when he saw the man, he felt compassion
for him. 34 Going over to him, the Samaritan
soothed his wounds with olive oil and wine and
bandaged them. Then he put the man on his
own donkey and took him to an inn, where he
took care of him. 35 The next day he handed the
innkeeper two silver coins,* telling him, ‘Take
care of this man. If his bill runs higher than this,
I’ll pay you the next time I’m here.’
36 “Now which of these three would you say
was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by
bandits?” Jesus asked.
37 The man replied, “The one who showed
him mercy.”
Then Jesus said, “Yes, now go and do the
same.”
Jesus Visits Martha and Mary
38 As Jesus and the disciples continued on their
way to Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed
him into her home. 39 Her sister, Mary, sat at the
Lord’s feet, listening to what he taught. 40 But
Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was
preparing. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord,
doesn’t it seem unfair to you that my sister just
sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come
and help me.”
41 But the Lord said to her, “My dear Martha,
you are worried and upset over all these details!
42 There is only one thing worth being concerned
10:15 Greek to Hades. 10:27 Deut 6:5; Lev 19:18. 10:32 Greek
A Levite. 10:35 Greek two denarii. A denarius was equivalent to
a laborer’s full day’s wage.