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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Luke 10 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/luke/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/luke/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Luke 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/9.htm" title="Luke 9">◄</a> Luke 10 <a href="../luke/11.htm" title="Luke 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/luke/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After this the Lord appointed seventy-two <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts seventy; also in verse 17">a</a></sup></span> others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He told them, <span class="red">“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="red">Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">“When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">“When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">‘Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, the realm of the dead">b</a></sup></span> </span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">“Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He replied, <span class="red">“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, <span class="red">“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, <span class="red">“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">The Parable of the Good Samaritan</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">“What is written in the Law?”</span> he replied. <span class="red">“How do you read it?”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>He answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Deut. 6:5">c</a></sup></span> ; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Lev. 19:18">d</a></sup></span> ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="red">“You have answered correctly,”</span> Jesus replied. <span class="red">“Do this and you will live.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>In reply Jesus said: <span class="red">“A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="red">A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="red">But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="red">He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="red">The next day he took out two denarii <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer (see Matt. 20:2).">e</a></sup></span> and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="red">“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”</p><p class="reg">Jesus told him, <span class="red">“Go and do likewise.”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">At the Home of Martha and Mary</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="red">“Martha, Martha,”</span> the Lord answered, <span class="red">“you are worried and upset about many things,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/10-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="red">but few things are needed—or indeed only one. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts but only one thing is needed">f</a></sup></span> Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts <i>seventy</i>; also in verse 17</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, the realm of the dead</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotebot">Deut. 6:5</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotebot">Lev. 19:18</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">35</span> <span class="footnotebot">A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer (see Matt. 20:2).</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">42</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts <i>but only one thing is needed</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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