17And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
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And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
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.
And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-24)Christ sent forth the seventy disciples as he was going up to Jerusalem to the feast of tabernacles , when he went up, not openly , but as it were in secret (John 7:10), having sent abroad so great a part of his ordinary retinue; and Dr. Lightfoot thinks it was before his return from that feast, and while he was yet at Jerusalem, or Bethany, which was hard by (for there he was, Luke 10:38), that t…
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