8. Whatever town you enter and they welcome you, eat what is set before you,
9. cure the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God is at hand for you.’
10. Whatever town you enter and they do not receive you, go out into the streets and say,
11. ‘The dust of your town that clings to our feet, even that we shake off against you.’ Yet know this: the kingdom of God is at hand.
12. I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom on that day than for that town.
13. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
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.
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 wishes to reveal him.”
23. Turning to the disciples in private he said, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.