4. “Travel light. Comb and toothbrush and no extra luggage.“Don’t loiter and make small talk with everyone you meet along the way.
7. “Stay at one home, taking your meals there, for a worker deserves three square meals. Don’t move from house to house, looking for the best cook in town.
15. “And you, Capernaum! Do you think you’re about to be promoted to heaven? Think again. You’re on a mudslide to hell.
16. “The one who listens to you, listens to me. The one who rejects you, rejects me. And rejecting me is the same as rejecting God, who sent me.”
17. The seventy came back triumphant. “Master, even the demons danced to your tune!”
21. At that, Jesus rejoiced, exuberant in the Holy Spirit. “I thank you, Father, Master of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the know-it-alls and showed them to these innocent newcomers. Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way.
22. “I’ve been given it all by my Father! Only the Father knows who the Son is and only the Son knows who the Father is. The Son can introduce the Father to anyone he wants to.”
25. Just then a religion scholar stood up with a question to test Jesus. “Teacher, what do I need to do to get eternal life?”
26. He answered, “What’s written in God’s Law? How do you interpret it?”
27. He said, “That you love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence—and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself.”
28. “Good answer!” said Jesus. “Do it and you’ll live.”
29. Looking for a loophole, he asked, “And just how would you define ‘neighbor’?”