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.
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- WEB Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.
- BSB After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit.
- NKJV After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go.
- NASB Now after this the Lord appointed seventy-two others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come.
- NLT The Lord now chose seventy-two other disciples and sent them ahead in pairs to all the towns and places he planned to visit.
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Jesus appoints seventy others and sends them two by two ahead of Him into the towns He will visit. He widens His mission through many sent messengers.
Overview
Beyond the Twelve, Jesus commissions a larger group, signaling the growing scope of the kingdom's harvest. (Some manuscripts read seventy-two; the number may evoke the nations of the world.) Sending them in pairs ahead of Him to prepare the way shows the orderly, witness-bearing spread of the gospel through those Christ commissions.
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- Mark 6:7–13And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;
- Luke 9:52And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
- Matt 10:1–4And 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.
- Luke 3:4–6As 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.
- Num 11:24–26And 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.
- Num 11:16And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
- Luke 9:1–2Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
- Luke 1:17And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
- Luke 1:76And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
- Rev 11:3–10And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
- Acts 13:2–4As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
- Luke 7:13And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
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