Luke 10:1-18

After this, the Lord chose 72 others. He sent them out in pairs. He sent them ahead of him into every town and place where he planned to go. He said to them, “There are a great many people to harvest. But there are only a few workers to harvest them. God owns the harvest. Pray to God that he will send more workers to help gather his harvest. You can go now. But listen! I am sending you, and you will be like sheep among wolves. Don’t carry a purse, a bag, or sandals. Don’t stop to talk with people on the road. Before you go into a house, say, ‘Peace be with this house.’ If a peaceful man lives there, your blessing of peace will stay with him. If the man is not peaceful, then your blessing of peace will come back to you. Stay in the same house. Eat and drink what the people there give you. A worker should be given his pay. Don’t move from house to house. If you go into a town and the people welcome you, eat what they give you. Heal the sick who live there. Tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is soon coming to you!’ But if you go into a town, and the people don’t welcome you, then go out into the streets of that town. Say to them, ‘Even the dirt from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. But remember that the kingdom of God is coming soon.’ I tell you, on the Judgment Day it will be worse for the people of that town than for the people of Sodom. “How terrible for you, Korazin! How terrible for you, Bethsaida! I did many miracles in you. If those same miracles had happened in Tyre and Sidon, those people would have changed their lives and stopped sinning long ago. They would have worn rough cloth and put ashes on themselves to show that they had changed. But on the Judgment Day it will be worse for you than for Tyre and Sidon. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No! You will be thrown down to the depths! “He who listens to you is really listening to me. He who refuses to accept you is really refusing to accept me. And he who refuses to accept me is refusing to accept the One who sent me.” When the 72 men came back from their trip, they were very happy. They said, “Lord, even the demons obeyed us when we used your name!” Jesus said to the men, “I saw Satan falling like lightning from the sky.