[10:1] 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.
[10:2] He said to them, “There is a large harvest, but few workers to gather it in. Pray to the owner of the harvest that he will send out workers to gather in his harvest.
[10:3] Go! I am sending you like lambs among wolves.
[10:4] Don't take a purse or a beggar's bag or shoes; don't stop to greet anyone on the road.
[10:5] Whenever you go into a house, first say, ‘Peace be with this house.’
[10:6] If someone who is peace-loving lives there, let your greeting of peace remain on that person; if not, take back your greeting of peace.
[10:7] Stay in that same house, eating and drinking whatever they offer you, for workers should be given their pay. Don't move around from one house to another.
[10:8] Whenever you go into a town and are made welcome, eat what is set before you,
[10:9] heal the sick in that town, and say to the people there, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near you.’
[10:10] But whenever you go into a town and are not welcomed, go out in the streets and say,
[10:11] ‘Even the dust from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. But remember that the Kingdom of God has come near you!’
[10:12] I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to Sodom than to that town!