New Testament 177

New Testament 177

 

The Seventy of Jesus in an icon
An icon of the Seventy

 

Luke 10:1-12

Compare Matthew 9:37-38; 10:7-16; John 4:35

 

1.

 

Since my mission in Switzerland, the Lord’s comment in Luke 10:2 has hit me powerfully:

 

The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

 

That’s one of the reasons I keep exhorting people to share the Gospel online.

 

2.

 

Back in the dark days of FARMS, before real scholarship had arrived there and ad hominem viciousness was still the order of the day, we published this article by S. Kent Brown, on “The Seventy in Scripture”:

 

http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1000&index=1

 

 


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