OET-RV LUKE Chapter 10

10 After all this, the master appointed seventy-two others and he sent them out in pairs to go ahead of him to every town and village that he would pass through. 2 [ref]He told them, “There’s a large harvest ready, but there’s only a few workers. So ask the owner of the crop to send out more workers to help with his harvest. 3 [ref]So get moving—see, I’m sending you out like lambs with wolves all around. 4 Don’t take a wallet or backpack or spare sandals, and don’t greet people on the road.

5 “Whenever you’re welcomed into a home, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ 6 And if there’s someone there worthy of peace[fn], then your peace will rest on that home, but if not, your peace will return to you. 7 [ref]Then stay in that same house and eat and drink what they give you, because the worker is worthy of his compensation. Don’t be moving from house to house. 8 Whenever you all go into some place and the locals accept you, then eat what they give you. 9 Heal the sick there and tell them that God’s kingdom is near. 10 [ref]But if you all go into some place and they don’t accept you, then go out to the roads and announce, 11 [ref]‘We’re wiping off even the dust from your place that stuck to our footwear, however you all need to know anyway that God’s kingdom is near.’ 12 [ref]I’m telling you that it will be more bearable for the people of Sodom in that day, than for the people in that place.

13 [ref]“You won’t end well, Chorazin. And you won’t end well, Bethsaida. Because if the miracles that were done in your places had been done in Tyre and Tsidon, they would have turned around from disobeying God and shown their humility long ago 14 hence it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Tsidon on judgement day than it will be for you all. 15 [ref]And you, Capernaum, don’t think you’ll be heading up to heaven, because it’ll be down to hell for you.

16 [ref]“Anyone who listens to all of you, will be hearing from me, and anyone who rejects you all will be rejecting me, and anyone who rejects me is rejecting the one who sent me here.

17 In time the seventy-two that had been sent out came back excited, saying, “Master, even the demons listened to us when we used your name and authority.”

18 “I saw Satan,” Yeshua replied, “when he fell out of heaven like lightning. 19 [ref]Listen, I’ve given you all the authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and to overcome the enemy’s power, and nothing at all will be able to injure you. 20 However, don’t get excited that the evil spirits obeyed you, but rather be happy that your names have been written down in the heavens.”

21 At the same time, the holy spirit got Yeshua excited and he said, “I’m aware father, master of heaven and earth, that you’ve hidden these things away from those who’re intelligent and well-educated, and instead revealed them to infants. Yes, father, that was what you decided.

22 [ref]Everything has been handed over to me by my father, and no one knows who the son is except for the father, and who the father is except for the son and those who the son decides to reveal him to.”

23 Then he turned to his apprentices and said discreetly, “Blessed are those who get to see what you all are seeing 24 because I can tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you all are seeing, but they didn’t get to see what you’ve seen, nor to hear what you all have heard.”

25 [ref]Then look, a lawyer stood us to test him, asking, “Teacher, what do I need to do to inherit eternal life?”

26 “Well, what’s written in the scriptures?” responded Yeshua. “How do you understand them?”

27 [ref]“You must love the master, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, and all your strength and all your mind,” he replied. “Also, you must love your neighbour as yourself.”

28 [ref]“You’ve answered correctly,” answered Yeshua, “so do that and you’ll live forever.”

29 But the lawyer wanted to justify his lifestyle, so he asked, “And who’s my neighbour?”

30 Yeshua replied with this: “Once a man was walking downhill from Yerusalem to Yericho when a group of robbers who grabbed him and took everything including his clothes, then took off leaving him there wounded and half-dead. 31 Then it so happened that a priest came down that same road, but when he saw him he continued past on the other side of the road. 32 Similarly, a priestly worker (a Levite) arrived at that place and when he saw him he too passed by the on other side. 33 [ref]Then a man from Samaria[fn] who was on a trip came across him, and when he saw him he felt sorry for him 34 and went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring olive oil and wine on them, then put him on his own animal and to him to a roadhouse and looked after him. 35 The next day he took out two coins and gave them to their host, instructing, ‘Look after this guy and if it costs more than this, I’ll reimburse you on my way back.’

36 “So which of those three do you think acted like the neighbour of the one attacked by robbers?”

37 “The one who cared for him,” replied the lawyer.

“Then you go and do the same,” Yeshua told him.

38 [ref]When it was time to leave, Yeshua went into a village and there was a woman there named Martha who welcomed him in. 39 She had a sister named Maria who was also sitting there on the floor by Yeshua’s feet listening to his teaching. 40 But Martha kept getting pulled away to keep the household running, and after a while approached Yeshua and asked, “Master, doesn’t it bother you that my sister has left all the housework to me? Tell her to come and help me.”

41 “Martha, Martha,” Yeshua answered, “you are worried and concerned about many things, 42 but only one thing really matters. Maria chose the best thing, and it won’t be taken away from her.”