50. “Do not try to stop him,” Jesus said to him and to the other disciples, “because whoever is not against you is for you.”


A SamaritanVillage Refuses to Receive Jesus

51. As the days drew near when Jesus would be taken up to heaven, he made up his mind and set out on his way to Jerusalem. 52. He sent messengers ahead of him, who left and went into a Samaritan village to get everything ready for him. 53. But the people there would not receive him, because it was plain that he was going to Jerusalem. 54. When the disciples James and John saw this they said, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven and destroy them?’

55. Jesus turned and rebuked them. 56 Then Jesus and his disciples went on to another village.

The Would-be Followers of Jesus

57. As they went on their way, a certain man said to Jesus, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

58. Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lie down and rest.”

59. He said to another man, “Follow me.”

But he said, “Sir, first let me go and bury my father.”

60. Jesus answered, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You go and preach the Kingdom of God.”

61. Another man said, “I will follow you, sir; but first let me go and say good-bye to my family.”

62. Jesus said to him, “Anyone who starts to plow and then keeps looking back is of no use for the Kingdom of God.”

Chapter - 10. Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-two

After this the Lord chose another seventy-two men and sent them out, two by two, to go ahead of him to every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 He said to them: “There is a great harvest, but few workers to gather it in. Pray to the owner of the harvest that he will send out more workers to

Some manuscripts add as Elijah did.

Some manuscripts add and said: “You don’t know what kind of a Spirit you belong to; for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”

SEVENTY-TWO; SOME MANUSCRIPTS HAVE SEVENTY.