Luke 10:1-24

3. The Sending of the Seventy. Disciples: Luke 10:1-24. Though Jesus proceeded slowly from city to city, and from village to village, He had but little time to devote to each place. It was therefore of great moment that He should everywhere find His arrival prepared for, minds awakened, hearts expectant of His visit. This precaution was the more important, because this first visit was to be His last. Accordingly, as He had sent the Twelve into the northern parts of Galilee at the period when He was visiting them for the last time, He now summons a more numerous body of His adherents to execute a similar mission in the southern regions of the province. They thus serve under His eyes, in a manner, the apprenticeship to their future calling. The recital of this mission embraces 1 st, The Sending (Luke 10:1-16); 2 d, The Return (Luke 10:17-24). The essential matter always is the discourse of Jesus, in which His profoundest emotions find expression.