10:1But after these things the Lord appointed also seventy-two others: and he sent them two by two before his face into every city and place where he himself was going to come. 10:2And he was saying to them: "The harvest indeed is great, but the workers few. 10:2Ask therefore the lord of the harvest that he send workers into his harvest. 10:3Go: look, I send you as lambs among wolves. 10:4Do not carry a purse, nor a bag, nor shoes, and greet no one along the road. 10:5Into whatever house you enter, first say: 'Peace to this house': and if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him: but if not, it will return to you.
10:7But in the same house remain, eating and drinking the things which are with them: for the worker is worthy of his wage. 10:7Do not pass over from house to house. 10:8And into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things which are set before you: and cure the sick who are in it, and say to them: 'The kingdom of God has drawn near to you.' 10:10But into whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, going out into its streets, say: 'Even the dust from your city which has clung to us, we wipe off against you: yet know this, that the kingdom of God has drawn near.' 10:12I say to you, that for Sodom it will be more bearable on that day than for that city.
10:13Woe to you, Chorazin! 10:13Woe to you, Bethsaida! 10:13For if in Tyre and Sidon the powers had been done which have been done among you, long ago they would have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 10:14But yet for Tyre and Sidon it will be more bearable in the judgement than for you. 10:15And you, Capernaum, exalted up to heaven, will be plunged down as far as hell. 10:16Whoever hears you, hears me: and whoever spurns you, spurns me. 10:16But whoever spurns me, spurns him who sent me." 10:17And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying: "Lord, even the demons are subjected to us in your name." 10:18And he said to them: "I was seeing Satan like lightning falling from heaven.
10:19Look, I have given you power of treading upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing will harm you. 10:20But yet do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subjected to you: but rejoice that your names have been written in the heavens." 10:21In that very hour he exulted in the Holy Spirit, and said: "I acknowledge you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to little ones. 10:21Yes, Father: because so it was pleasing before you. 10:22All things have been handed over to me by my Father. 10:22And no one knows who the Son is, except the Father: and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom the Son has wished to reveal him."
10:23And turning towards his disciples, he said: "Blessed the eyes which see the things which you see. 10:24For I say to you that many prophets and kings wished to see the things which you see, and did not see them: and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them." 10:25And look, a certain lawyer stood up, testing him, and saying: "Master, by doing what shall I possess eternal life?" 10:26But he said to him: "In the law, what has been written? 10:26How do you read?" 10:27He, answering, said: "You shall love the Lord your God out of your whole heart, and out of your whole soul, and out of all your strengths, and out of your whole mind: and your neighbour as yourself."
10:28And he said to him: "You have answered rightly: do this, and you will live." 10:29But he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus: "And who is my neighbour?" 10:30And Jesus, taking it up, said: "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, who also stripped him: and, blows having been laid on him, they went away, he having been left half-alive. 10:31And it happened that a certain priest was going down by the same road: and, having seen him, he passed by. 10:32Likewise also a Levite, when he was near the place, and saw him, passed on through. 10:33But a certain Samaritan, making a journey, came near him: and seeing him, he was moved with pity.
10:34And approaching, he bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine: and placing him on his own beast of burden, he led him to an inn, and took care of him. 10:35And on the next day he brought out two denarii, and gave them to the innkeeper, and said: 'Have care of him: and whatever you spend over and above, I, when I return, will pay back to you.' 10:36Which of these three seems to you to have been neighbour to him who fell among the robbers?" 10:37But he said: "He who did mercy towards him." 10:37And Jesus said to him: "Go, and you, do likewise." 10:38Now it was done, while they were going, that he himself went into a certain village: and a certain woman, Martha by name, received him into her house, and she had a sister by name Mary, who also, sitting beside the feet of the Lord, was listening to his word.
10:40But Martha was busy about much serving: and she stood, and said: "Lord, is it not a care to you that my sister has left me alone to serve? 10:40Tell her therefore that she help me." 10:41And answering, the Lord said to her: "Martha, Martha, you are anxious, and you are troubled about very many things; but one thing is necessary. 10:42Mary has chosen the best part, which will not be taken away from her."