10 Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to come.

² And he said to them, The harvest indeed [is] great, but the workmen few; supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest that he may send out workmen into his harvest.

³ Go: behold *I* send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves.

⁴ Carry neither purse nor scrip nor sandals, and salute no one on the way.

⁵ And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace to this house.

⁶ And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it; but if not it shall turn to you again.

⁷ And in the same house abide, eating and drinking such things as they have; for the workman is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house.

⁸ And into whatsoever city ye may enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you,

⁹ and heal the sick in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God is come nigh to you.

¹⁰ But into whatsoever city ye may have entered and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,

¹¹ Even the dust of your city, which cleaves to us on the feet, do we shake off against you; but know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh.

¹² I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that city.

¹³ Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁴ But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

¹⁵ And *thou*, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven, shalt be brought down even to hades.

¹⁶ He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.

¹⁷ And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us through thy name.

¹⁸ And he said to them, I beheld Satan as lightning falling out of heaven.

¹⁹ Behold, I give you the power of treading upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise injure you.

²⁰ Yet in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice that your names are written in the heavens.

²¹ In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes: yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy sight.

²² All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son is pleased to reveal [him].

²³ And having turned to the disciples privately he said, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see.

²⁴ For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things which ye behold, and did not see [them]; and to hear the things which ye hear, and did not hear [them].

²⁵ And behold, a certain lawyer stood up tempting him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, shall I inherit life eternal?

²⁶ And he said to him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

²⁷ But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself.

²⁸ And he said to him, Thou hast answered right: this do and thou shalt live.

²⁹ But he, desirous of justifying himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

³⁰ And Jesus replying said, A certain man descended from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into [the hands of] robbers, who also, having stripped him and inflicted wounds, went away leaving him in a half-dead state.

³¹ And a certain priest happened to go down that way, and seeing him, passed on on the opposite side;

³² and in like manner also a Levite, being at the spot, came and looked [at him] and passed on on the opposite side.

³³ But a certain Samaritan journeying came to him, and seeing [him], was moved with compassion,

³⁴ and came up [to him] and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine; and having put him on his own beast, took him to [the] inn and took care of him.

³⁵ And on the morrow [as he left], taking out two denarii he gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou shalt expend more, *I* will render to thee on my coming back.

³⁶ Which [now] of these three seems to thee to have been neighbour of him who fell into [the hands of] the robbers?

³⁷ And he said, He that shewed him mercy. And Jesus said to him, Go, and do *thou* likewise.

³⁸ And it came to pass as they went that *he* entered into a certain village; and a certain woman, Martha by name, received him into her house.

³⁹ And she had a sister called Mary, who also, having sat down at the feet of Jesus was listening to his word.

⁴⁰ Now Martha was distracted with much serving, and coming up she said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Speak to her therefore that she may help me.

⁴¹ But Jesus answering said to her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things;

⁴² but there is need of one, and Mary has chosen the good part, the which shall not be taken from her.

11 And it came to pass as he was in a certain place praying, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples.

² And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Father, thy name be hallowed; thy kingdom come;

³ give us our needed bread for each day;

⁴ and remit us our sins, for we also remit to every one indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation.

⁵ And he said to them, Who among you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, let me have three loaves,

⁶ since a friend of mine on a journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him;

⁷ and he within answering should say, Do not disturb me; the door is already shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise up to give [it] thee?

⁸ —I say to you, Although he will not get up and give [them] to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise and give him as many as he wants.

⁹ And *I* say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

¹⁰ For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it will be opened.

¹¹ But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and [the father] shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?

¹² or if also he shall ask an egg, shall give him a scorpion?

¹³ If therefore *ye*, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give [the] Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

¹⁴ And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb; and it came to pass, the demon being gone out, the dumb [man] spoke. And the crowds wondered.

¹⁵ But some from among them said, By Beelzebub the prince of the demons casts he out demons.

¹⁶ And others tempting [him] sought from him a sign out of heaven.

¹⁷ But *he*, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation: and a house set against a house falls;

¹⁸ and if also Satan is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom subsist? because ye say that I cast out demons by Beelzebub.

¹⁹ But if *I* by Beelzebub cast out demons, your sons—by whom do they cast [them] out? For this reason *they* shall be your judges.

²⁰ But if by the finger of God I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.

²¹ When the strong [man] armed keeps his own house, his goods are in peace;

²² but when the stronger than he coming upon [him] overcomes him, he takes away his panoply in which he trusted, and he will divide the spoil [he has taken] from him.

²³ He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathers not with me scatters.

²⁴ When the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places seeking rest; and not finding [any] he says, I will return to my house whence I came out.

²⁵ And having come, he finds it swept and adorned.

²⁶ Then he goes and takes seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first.

²⁷ And it came to pass as he spake these things, a certain woman, lifting up her voice out of the crowd, said to him, Blessed is the womb that has borne thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

²⁸ But *he* said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep [it].

²⁹ But as the crowds thronged together, he began to say, This generation is a wicked generation: it seeks a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it but the sign of Jonas.

³⁰ For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites, thus shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

³¹ A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, more than Solomon is here.

³² Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and behold, more than Jonas is here.

³³ But no one having lit a lamp sets it in secret, nor under the corn-measure, but on the lamp-stand, that they who enter in may see the light.

³⁴ The lamp of the body is thine eye: when thine eye is simple, thy whole body also is light; but when it is wicked, thy body also is dark.

³⁵ See therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

³⁶ If therefore thy whole body [is] light, not having any part dark, it shall be all light as when the lamp lights thee with its brightness.

³⁷ But as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him that he would dine with him; and entering in he placed himself at table.

³⁸ But the Pharisee seeing [it] wondered that he had not first washed before dinner.

³⁹ But the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inward [parts] are full of plunder and wickedness.

⁴⁰ Fools, has not he who has made the outside made the inside also?

⁴¹ But rather give alms of what ye have, and behold, all things are clean to you.

⁴² But woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside.

⁴³ Woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market-places.

⁴⁴ Woe unto you, for ye are as the sepulchres which appear not, and the men walking over them do not know [it].

⁴⁵ And one of the doctors of the law answering says to him, Teacher, in saying these things thou insultest us also.

⁴⁶ And he said, To you also woe, doctors of the law, for ye lay upon men burdens heavy to bear, and yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

⁴⁷ Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.

⁴⁸ Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your fathers; for *they* killed them, and *ye* build [their sepulchres].

⁴⁹ For this reason also the wisdom of God has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of these shall they kill and drive out by persecution,

⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.

⁵² Woe unto you, the doctors of the law, for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; yourselves have not entered in, and those who were entering in ye have hindered.

⁵³ And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him urgently, and to make him speak of many things;

⁵⁴ watching him, [and seeking] to catch something out of his mouth, [that they might accuse him].

12 In those [times], the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so that they trod one on another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

² but there is nothing covered up which shall not be revealed, nor secret that shall not be known;

³ therefore whatever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

⁴ But I say to you, my friends, Fear not those who kill the body and after this have no more that they can do.

⁵ But I will shew you whom ye shall fear: Fear him who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear *him*.

⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two assaria? and one of them is not forgotten before God.

⁷ But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore, ye are better than many sparrows.

⁸ But I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, the Son of man will confess him also before the angels of God;

⁹ but he that shall have denied me before men shall be denied before the angels of God;

¹⁰ and whoever shall say a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him; but to him that speaks injuriously against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.

¹¹ But when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers and the authorities, be not careful how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say;

¹² for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in the hour itself what should be said.

¹³ And a person said to him out of the crowd, Teacher, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me.

¹⁴ But he said to him, Man, who established me [as] a judge or a divider over you?

¹⁵ And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for [it is] not because a man is in abundance [that] his life is in his possessions.

¹⁶ And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

¹⁷ And he reasoned within himself saying, What shall I do? for I have not [a place] where I shall lay up my fruits.

¹⁸ And he said, This will I do: I will take away my granaries and build greater, and there I will lay up all my produce and my good things;

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.

²⁰ But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?

²¹ Thus is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

²² And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.

²³ The life is more than food, and the body than raiment.

²⁴ Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How much better are *ye* than the birds?

²⁵ But which of you by being careful can add to his stature one cubit?

²⁶ If therefore ye cannot [do] even what is least, why are ye careful about the rest?

²⁷ Consider the lilies how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I say unto you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.

²⁸ But if God thus clothe the grass, which to-day is in the field and to-morrow is cast into [the] oven, how much rather you, O ye of little faith?

²⁹ And *ye*, seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, and be not in anxiety;

³⁰ for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;

³¹ but seek his kingdom, and [all] these things shall be added to you.

³² Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure of your Father to give you the kingdom.

³³ Sell what ye possess and give alms; make to yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure which does not fail in the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy.

³⁴ For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

³⁵ Let your loins be girded about, and lamps burning;

³⁶ and *ye* like men who wait their own lord whenever he may leave the wedding, that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.

³⁷ Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord [on] coming shall find watching; verily I say unto you, that he will gird himself and make them recline at table, and coming up will serve them.

³⁸ And if he come in the second watch, and come in the third watch, and find [them] thus, blessed are those [bondmen].

³⁹ But this know, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be dug through.

⁴⁰ And ye therefore, be *ye* ready, for in the hour in which ye do not think [it], the Son of man comes.

⁴¹ And Peter said to him, Lord, sayest thou this parable to us, or also to all?

⁴² And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give the measure of corn in season?

⁴³ Blessed is that bondman whom his lord [on] coming shall find doing thus;

⁴⁴ verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he has.

⁴⁵ But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,

⁴⁶ the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.

⁴⁷ But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared [himself] nor done his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes];

⁴⁸ but he who knew [it] not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to every one to whom much has been given, much shall be required from him; and to whom [men] have committed much, they will ask from him the more.

⁴⁹ I have come to cast a fire on the earth; and what will I if already it has been kindled?

⁵⁰ But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it shall have been accomplished!

⁵¹ Think ye that I have come to give peace in the earth? Nay, I say to you, but rather division:

⁵² for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against three:

⁵³ father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

⁵⁴ And he said also to the crowds, When ye see a cloud rising out of the west, straightway ye say, A shower is coming; and so it happens.

⁵⁵ And when [ye see] the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it happens.

⁵⁶ Hypocrites, ye know how to judge of the appearance of the earth and of the heaven; how [is it then that] ye do not discern this time?

⁵⁷ And why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

⁵⁸ For as thou goest with thine adverse party before a magistrate, strive in the way to be reconciled with him, lest he drag thee away to the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

⁵⁹ I say unto thee, Thou shalt in no wise come out thence until thou hast paid the very last mite.

13 Now at the same time there were present some who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with [that of] their sacrifices.

² And he answering said to them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans because they suffered such things?

³ No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in the same manner.

⁴ Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, think ye that *they* were debtors beyond all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

⁵ No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in like manner.

⁶ And he spoke this parable: A certain [man] had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit upon it and did not find [any].

⁷ And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, [these] three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none: cut it down; why does it also render the ground useless?

⁸ But he answering says to him, Sir, let it alone for this year also, until I shall dig about it and put dung,

⁹ and if it shall bear fruit—but if not, after that thou shalt cut it down.

¹⁰ And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

¹¹ And lo, [there was] a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent together and wholly unable to lift her head up.

¹² And Jesus, seeing her, called to [her], and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.

¹³ And he laid his hands upon her; and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

¹⁴ But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which [people] ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

¹⁵ The Lord therefore answered him and said, Hypocrites! does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger and leading [it] away, water [it]?

¹⁶ And this [woman], who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, [these] eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

¹⁷ And as he said these things, all who were opposed to him were ashamed; and all the crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things which were being done by him.

¹⁸ And he said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

¹⁹ It is like a grain of mustard [seed] which a man took and cast into his garden; and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of heaven lodged in its branches.

²⁰ And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?

²¹ It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.

²² And he went through one city and village after another, teaching, and journeying to Jerusalem.

²³ And one said to him, Sir, [are] such as are to be saved few in number? But he said unto them,

²⁴ Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

²⁵ From the time that the master of the house shall have risen up and shall have shut the door, and ye shall begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he answering shall say to you, I know you not whence ye are:

²⁶ then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten in thy presence and drunk, and thou hast taught in our streets;

²⁷ and he shall say, I tell you, I do not know you whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity.

²⁸ There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves cast out.

²⁹ And they shall come from east and west, and from north and south, and shall lie down at table in the kingdom of God.

³⁰ And behold, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.

³¹ The same hour certain Pharisees came up, saying to him, Get out, and go hence, for Herod is desirous to kill thee.

³² And he said to them, Go, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and accomplish cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third [day] I am perfected;

³³ but I must needs walk to-day and to-morrow and the [day] following, for it must not be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

³⁴ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the [city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen her brood under her wings, and ye would not.

³⁵ Behold, your house is left unto you; and I say unto you, that ye shall not see me until it come that ye say, Blessed [is] he that comes in the name of [the] Lord.