Chiasm
Luke 10:01–24
Luke 10:01–244 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1 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.
- A' 3-4 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
- A 8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
- B 9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
- A' 10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
- B' 11 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.
- A 12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
- B 13 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.
- A' 14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you.
- B' 15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
- A 16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me;
- B 16b and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
- A 17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
- A' 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
- A 21 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,
- A' 24 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.