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16 And he came to Naz­areth, where he had been brought up. And as was his cus­tom, he went to the syn­agogue on the Sab­bath day, and he stood up to read. 17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

20 And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attend­ant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the syn­agogue were fixed on him. 21 And he began to say to them, “Today this Scrip­ture has been ful­filled in your hear­ing.” 22 And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gra­cious words that were com­ing from his mouth. And they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?” 23 And he said to them, “Doubt­less you will quote to me this pro­verb, ‘Phys­i­cian, heal your­self.’ What we have heard you did at Caper­naum, do here in your homet­own as well.” 24 And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is accept­able in his homet­own. 25 But in truth, I tell you, there were many wid­ows in Israel in the days of Eli­jah, when the heav­ens were shut up three years and six months, and a great fam­ine came over all the land, 26 and Eli­jah was sent to none of them but only to Zare­phath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naa­man the Syr­ian.” 28 When they heard these things, all in the syn­agogue were filled with wrath. (ESV)

10:1 After this the Lord appoin­ted seventy-​​two oth­ers and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he him­self was about to go. 2 And he said to them, “The har­vest is plen­ti­ful, but the laborers are few. There­fore pray earn­estly to the Lord of the har­vest to send out laborers into his har­vest. 3 Go your way; behold, I am send­ing you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. 4 Carry no money­bag, no knap­sack, no san­dals, and greet no one on the road. 5 Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’ 6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you. 7 And remain in the same house, eat­ing and drink­ing what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house. 8 Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. 9 Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The king­dom of God has come near to you.’ 10 But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, 11 ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nev­er­the­less know this, that the king­dom of God has come near.’ 12 I tell you, it will be more bear­able on that day for Sodom than for that town.

13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Beth­saida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repen­ted long ago, sit­ting in sack­cloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more bear­able in the judg­ment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 15 And you, Caper­naum, will you be exal­ted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.

16 “The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

17 The seventy-​​two returned with joy, say­ing, “Lord, even the demons are sub­ject to us in your name!” 18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like light­ning from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you author­ity to tread on ser­pents and scor­pi­ons, and over all the power of the enemy, and noth­ing shall hurt you. 20 Nev­er­the­less, do not rejoice in this, that the spir­its are sub­ject to you, but rejoice that your names are writ­ten in heaven.”

21 In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hid­den these things from the wise and under­stand­ing and revealed them to little chil­dren; yes, Father, for such was your gra­cious will. (ESV)