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The ^[i]seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even ^(w)the demons are subject to us in Your name."

And He said to them, "I was watching ^(x)Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

Behold, I have given you authority to ^(y)tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you.

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that ^(z)your names are recorded in heaven."

^(aa)At that very ^[j]time He rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I ^[k]praise You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

^(ab)All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and ^(ac)no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him."

^(ad)Turning to the disciples, He said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see,

for I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them."