17. The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"

18. He said to them,"I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

19. Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

20. Nevertheless, don't rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."

21. In that same hour JESUS rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said,"I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight."

22. Turning to the disciples, he said,"All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him."

23. Turning to the disciples, he said privately,"Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,

24. for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them."