1After 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.
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And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; …
And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. …
And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. …
As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)We have here the sending forth of seventy disciples, two and two, into divers parts of the country, to preach the gospel, and to work miracles in those places which Christ himself designed to visit, to make way for his entertainment. This is not taken notice of by the other evangelists: but the instructions here given them are much the same with those given to the twelve. Observe, I. Their number:…
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