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Luke 10

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Luke 10 Overview

Jesus sends seventy disciples ahead of Him, warns cities that reject great light, rejoices in the Father’s revelation, and tells the parable of the Good Samaritan after a lawyer asks how to inherit eternal life while seeking to justify himself. The chapter ends in Martha’s home, where Mary listens at Jesus’ feet and Martha is corrected for anxious distraction.

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Before you read Luke 10

Coming from

Luke 9 established the immediate context: Jesus sends the Twelve to preach and heal, feeds five thousand, receives Peter’s confession that He is the Christ of God, predicts His suffering and calls disciples to daily self-denial.

In this chapter

Luke 10 combines mission, accountability, neighbor-love, and priority in hearing Jesus, while exposing the difference between self-justifying religion and mercy.

Leads into

Luke 11 continues the account: Jesus teaches His disciples to pray, gives the friend-at-midnight illustration, and urges asking, seeking, and knocking.

Key understandingExplore deeper

The lawyer begins from a law question and later seeks to justify himself. Jesus answers within that framework and uses the Samaritan to expose the impossibility of narrowing neighbor-love. The parable should not be turned into a claim that charitable deeds purchase eternal life.

The seventy’s joy over spiritual power is redirected toward the greater privilege that their names are written in heaven.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Mission is urgent and dependent

The harvest is great, laborers are few, and messengers go as lambs among wolves.

Greater revelation brings greater accountability

Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum are judged for rejecting mighty works.

Neighbor-love crosses inherited hostility

The Samaritan becomes the example of concrete mercy when religious travelers pass by.

Self-justification is exposed by the law’s breadth

The lawyer’s question about who counts as neighbor is overturned into becoming a neighbor.

Hearing Jesus is more necessary than anxious service

Mary’s attention is defended as the good part.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Leviticus 19:18

Neighbor-love stands behind the lawyer’s summary of the law.

Deuteronomy 6:5

Wholehearted love for God supplies the first half of the legal summary.

2 Chronicles 28:8–15

Samaritans’ ancestors in the northern kingdom once show mercy to Judean captives, an interesting historical echo of neighbor compassion.

Ephesians 2:8–10

Paul distinguishes salvation by grace through faith from good works that follow, helpful for preventing misuse of the Samaritan story.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Do not preach the Good Samaritan as the way to earn eternal life

The lawyer is testing Jesus and trying to justify himself; the parable exposes the demand of love rather than providing a meritorious salvation formula.

Do not demean priests and Levites as though their offices themselves cause hardness

The parable condemns the particular failure to show mercy.

Do not use Mary and Martha to say practical service is bad

Martha’s problem is anxious distraction and resentment, not service itself.

Read Luke 10 watching for…

The number and mission of the sent disciples.

Jesus’ warnings to unresponsive cities.

What the seventy should rejoice in most.

The lawyer’s two questions.

The surprising identity of the merciful neighbor.

The contrast between Martha’s distraction and Mary’s listening.

TWBC REVIEW STANDARD

Plain language. Scripture first. Fact distinguished from inference. No filler. No fake certainty. Designed to help you read the Bible itself.

Chapter outline3 sections
1-24Jesus sends seventy, warns unrepentant cities, and rejoices over what the Father reveals25-37Jesus answers a lawyer with the parable of the good Samaritan38-42Martha serves while Mary sits at Jesus’ feet and hears his word
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After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

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Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

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Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

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Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.

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

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And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.

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And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

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And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

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And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

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But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,

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Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

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But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.

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Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

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But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you.

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And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.

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He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

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And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

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And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

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Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

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Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

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In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.

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All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

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And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:

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For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

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And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

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He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

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And 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 thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

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

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But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

30

And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

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And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

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And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.

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But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,

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And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

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And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.

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Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?

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And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

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Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

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And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.

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But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.

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And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:

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But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

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