1-2. Later the Master selected seventy and sent them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he intended to go. He gave them this charge:“What a huge harvest! And how few the harvest hands. So on your knees; ask the God of the Harvest to send harvest hands.
10-12. “When you enter a town and are not received, go out in the street and say, ‘The only thing we got from you is the dirt on our feet, and we’re giving it back. Did you have any idea that God’s kingdom was right on your doorstep?’ Sodom will have it better on Judgment Day than the town that rejects you.
13-14. “Doom, Chorazin! Doom, Bethsaida! If Tyre and Sidon had been given half the chances given you, they’d have been on their knees long ago, repenting and crying for mercy. Tyre and Sidon will have it easy on Judgment Day compared to you.