New Testament in a Year

Yeshua Sends Out the Seventy

10 Now after these things, the Lord assigned seventy^[a] others and sent them out by twos before Him into every town and place where He Himself was about to go. ² And He was telling them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore, beg the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.

³ “Go forth! Look, I am sending you as lambs in the midst of wolves. ⁴ Do not be burdened with a money belt, travel bag, or shoes; and do not greet anyone along the way. ⁵ Whatever home you enter, first say, “Shalom be on this home.” ⁶ If a son of shalom is there, your shalom will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. ⁷ And remain in this same home, eating and drinking the things they offer, for the worker is deserving of his wage. Do not keep moving from house to house.

⁸ “Whatever town you enter and they welcome you, eat what they set before you. ⁹ Then heal the sick in that town, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ ¹⁰ But if you enter a town and they do not welcome you, then go out into its streets and say, ¹¹ ‘Even the dust of your town sticking to our feet, we wipe off as a witness to you. But know this! The kingdom of God has come near.’ ¹² I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom^[b] on that day than for that town.

¹³ “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have turned long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ Yet it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the Judgment than for you! ^{[c] 15} And you, Capernaum? You won’t be lifted up to heaven, will you? No, you will go down as far as Sheol. ¹⁶ The one who listens to you hears Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me, and the one who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

Returning with a Good Report

¹⁷ Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Master, even the demons submit to us in Your name!”

¹⁸ And Yeshua said to them, “I was watching satan fall like lightning from heaven. ¹⁹ Behold, I have given you authority to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. ²⁰ Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names have been written in the heavens.”^[d]

²¹ In that very hour, He was overjoyed in the Ruach ha-Kodesh and said, “I praise You, Father, Master of the universe, that You have hidden these things from the wise and discerning and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this way was pleasing to You. ²² All things have been handed over to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”

²³ Then turning to the disciples, He said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! ²⁴ For I tell you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you are seeing yet did not see, and to hear what you are hearing yet did not hear.”