Luke 10:1-16

The Mission of the Seventy

10¹ Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to come. ² And he said to them, The harvest indeed [is] great, but the workmen few; supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest that he may send out workmen into his harvest. ³ Go: behold I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves. ⁴ Carry neither purse nor scrip nor sandals, and salute no one on the way. ⁵ And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace to this house. ⁶ And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it; but if not it shall turn to you again. ⁷ And in the same house abide, eating and drinking such things as they have; for the workman is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house. ⁸ And into whatsoever city ye may enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you, ⁹ and heal the sick in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God is come nigh to you. ¹⁰ But into whatsoever city ye may have entered and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, ¹¹ Even the dust of your city, which cleaves to us on the feet, do we shake off against you; but know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh. ¹² I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that city.

Woes to Unrepentant Cities

¹³ Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. ¹⁵ And thou, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven, shalt be brought down even to hades. ¹⁶ He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.