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Luke 10:15-17
New Catholic Bible
Luke 10:15-17
New Catholic Bible
15 And as for you, Capernaum:
Will you be exalted to heaven?
You will be brought down to the netherworld.[a]
16 “Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
17 Joy of the Missionaries.[b] The seventy-two returned rejoicing, and they said, “Lord, in your name even the demons are subject to us.”
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- Luke 10:15 The netherworld: the place of the dead, i.e., the underworld (as in Acts 2:27, 31).
- Luke 10:17 In the joy of the disciples, Jesus sees the beginning of the defeat of the forces of evil inflamed against human beings, and of their leader Satan (see Lk 11:20). Jesus shares their joy; but he invites them to rejoice most of all that they are the elect of the Father, a happiness that radically surpasses all missionary success.
