Luke 10:1

Luke 10:1-24. The Mission of the Seventy.

1. After these things i.e. after finally leaving Galilee, and starting on His great Peraean progress.

other seventy also Rather, also others (besides the Twelve) seventy in number. Some MSS. read seventy-two (B, D, M, &c.). The number had evident reference to the Elders of Moses (Numbers 11:16), where there is the same variation; the Sanhedrin; and the Jewish belief (derived from Genesis 10) as to the number of the nations of the world. The references to Elim with its 12 wells and 70 palm-trees are mere plays of allegoric fancy.

two and two The same merciful provision that we see in the brother- pairs of the Twelve.

into every city,&c. Clearly with the same object as in Luke 9:52. It may have been all the more necessary because hitherto He had worked less in the Transjordanic regions.