14. But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.
15. And as for you, Capernaum, ‘Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.’”
16. Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
17. The seventy [-two] returned rejoicing, and said, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name.”
18. Jesus said, “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky.
19. Behold, I have given you the power ‘to tread upon serpents’ and scorpions and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you.
20. Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”
21. At that very moment he rejoiced [in] the holy Spirit and said, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.