Luke 10

The TorahRooted Bible (TRB), translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek.

The seventy sent out

¹ After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go. ² Then He said to them, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. ³ Go your way; see, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. ⁴ Carry neither money bag, nor knapsack, nor sandals; and greet no one along the road. ⁵ But whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace to this house.' ⁶ And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. ⁷ And remain in that same house, eating and drinking such things as they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house. ⁸ And whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you, ⁹ and heal the sick who are there, and say to them, 'The kingdom of Elohim has come near to you.' ¹⁰ But whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, ¹¹ 'Even the very dust of your city which clings to us we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of Elohim has come near to you.' ¹² I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

¹³ "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were 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 tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. ¹⁵ And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. ¹⁶ He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me."

The seventy return

¹⁷ Then the seventy 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 See, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means 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 Yeshua rejoiced in spirit and said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight." ²² And turning to the disciples He said, "All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and he to whom the Son wills to reveal Him." ²³ Then He turned to His disciples and said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see; ²⁴ for I say to you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it."

Who is my neighbor?

²⁵ And see, a certain expert in the Torah stood up, testing Him, and saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" ²⁶ He said to him, "What is written in the Torah? How do you read it?" ²⁷ So he answered and said, "'You shall love the Lord your Elohim with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,' and 'your neighbor as yourself.'" ²⁸ And He said to him, "You have answered rightly; do this and you will live."

²⁹ But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Yeshua, "And who is my neighbor?" ³⁰ Then Yeshua replied and said, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. ³¹ Now by chance a certain priest was going down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. ³² Likewise a Levite also, when he arrived at the place, came and saw him, and passed by on the other side. ³³ But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion. ³⁴ So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. ³⁵ On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, 'Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I come back, I will repay you.' ³⁶ So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?" ³⁷ And he said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Yeshua said to him, "Go, and you do likewise."

Martha and Miriam

³⁸ Now it happened, as they went on their way, that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. ³⁹ And she had a sister called Miriam, who also sat at Yeshua's feet and heard His word. ⁴⁰ But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came to Him and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me." ⁴¹ And Yeshua answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. ⁴² But one thing is needed, and Miriam has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her."

Notes

• 10:1 The Majority Text, which the TRB follows, reads "seventy" here and in verse 17; some manuscripts read "seventy-two." The number recalls the seventy elders Moses gathered to share his burden (Numbers 11:16), and many also see in it the nations of Genesis 10, which Jewish tradition counted as seventy, so that this sending already points beyond Israel's borders.
• 10:6 "A son of peace" is a Hebrew way of speaking: to be a "son of" something is to be marked by it, so a son of peace is a person of peace, ready to receive the greeting "Peace" (shalom) of verse 5.
• 10:28 Yeshua answered a question about the Torah from the Torah, and approved the expert's reading: Deuteronomy 6:5 joined to Leviticus 19:18, the same two commandments Yeshua names in Matthew 22:37-40 and Mark 12:29-31. "Do this and you will live" echoes Leviticus 18:5, Elohim's statutes and judgments "which if a person does, he shall live by them." The "expert in the Torah" (nomikos) was a teacher trained in the Torah, the title Matthew also uses (Matthew 22:35).
• 10:33 Samaritans worshiped on Mount Gerizim, and many Judeans saw them as descended in part from the peoples the king of Assyria settled in Samaria (2 Kings 17:24); in Yeshua's day the two were often hostile (John 4:9). Luke does not say why the priest and the Levite passed by (some suggest fear of corpse uncleanness, Leviticus 21:1). Yeshua turns the question from "who is my neighbor?" to who acted as one, as the Torah already said even of the stranger, "you shall love him as yourself" (Leviticus 19:34).
• 10:34 Many hear an echo of 2 Chronicles 28:15, where men of Samaria took captives from Judah, clothed them, fed them, anointed them, "carried all the feeble on donkeys and brought them to Jericho." Oil and wine were common remedies: wine to clean a wound, oil to soothe it (compare Isaiah 1:6).
• 10:39 Miriam (Greek Maria) is Martha's sister; John places the two sisters, with their brother Lazarus, in Bethany near Jerusalem (John 11:1; 12:2-3). To sit at a teacher's feet was the place of a disciple, as Paul was trained at the feet of Gamaliel (Acts 22:3); here a woman takes that place, and Yeshua defends her choice (verse 42).

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