Luke 10:17

17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”

Luke 10:17 in Other Translations

17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

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

17 When the seventy-two disciples returned, they joyfully reported to him, “Lord, even the demons obey us when we use your name!”

17 The seventy came back triumphant. "Master, even the demons danced to your tune!"

17 And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject unto us in thy name.

17 The 70 disciples came back very happy. They said, "Lord, even demons obey us when we use the power and authority of your name!"

17 The Seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name."

17 The 72 returned with joy. They said, "Lord, even the demons obey us when we speak in your name."

Luke 10:17 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 10:17

And the seventy returned again
The Syriac version adds, "whom he had sent": these disciples having received orders and instructions from Christ, went as he directed them; and when they had finished their embassy, they returned again to him, and gave him an account of their journey and success. The Vulgate Latin and Persic versions read here, "the seventy two", as they do in ( Luke 10:1 )

with joy;
with great joy, as read the Syriac and Persic versions; notwithstanding the difficulties that had attended them, reproaches cast upon them, the ill treatment they might have met with in some places, and the labours and fatigues of their journey, and the dangers they had been exposed to:

saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name:
they found the miraculous power conferred on them was greater than they at first imagined, or could collect from what Christ said to them, who only bid them heal the sick, ( Luke 10:9 ) , but when they came to make use of it they found they had a power of casting out devils; not in their own name and strength, but in the name, and through the power, and by the authority of Christ; and this had thrown them into an ecstasy of joy, and in a sort of a rapture: they express themselves as men astonished at the powers bestowed on them.

Luke 10:17 In-Context

15 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.

16 “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”

18 He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

Cross References

• 1. ver 1
• 2. S Mark 16:17