{"id":72616,"date":"2019-04-06T20:16:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T02:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=72616"},"modified":"2019-04-07T13:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T19:49:28","slug":"new-testament-notes-177-181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/04\/new-testament-notes-177-181.html","title":{"rendered":"New Testament Notes 177-181"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"The<\/a>
An icon of the Seventy
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Luke 10:1-12<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Matthew 9:37-38; 10:7-16; John 4:35<\/p>\n

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1.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Since my mission in German-speaking Switzerland, the Lord\u2019s comment in Luke 10:2 has hit me powerfully:<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0harvest\u00a0truly is\u00a0great, but the laborers are\u00a0few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s one of the reasons I keep exhorting people to share the Gospel online.<\/p>\n

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2.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Back in the dark days of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormonism<\/a> (FARMS), before real scholarship had arrived there and while\u00a0ad hominem<\/em> viciousness was still the order of the day, we published this article by S. Kent Brown, on \u201cThe Seventy in Scripture\u201d:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu\/fullscreen\/?pub=1000&index=1<\/a><\/p>\n

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The likely ruins of the ancient Galilean fishing village of Bethsaida as they appeared in 2011
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Luke 10:13-15<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Matthew 11:20-24; Luke 10:12<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know whether it should count as a fulfillment of these prophetic verses or not, but the fact is that Bethsaida, Chorazin, and Capernaum are mere archaeological ruins today.<\/p>\n

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In fact, the very location of Bethsaida is still disputed in some quarters.<\/p>\n

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The Twelve Apostles of Jesus (\u201cThe Holy Apostles,\u201d says the caption)
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Luke 10:16<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Matthew 10:40; John 13:20<\/p>\n

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There could scarcely be a stronger or more comprehensive statement of what Latter-day Saints call \u201cpriesthood authority\u201d (or, more specifically, \u201capostolic authority\u201d) than this verse.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Fall of Satan\u201d (Gustave Dor\u00e9, 1865);\u00a0Wikimedia Commons public domain image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Luke 10:17-20<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Mark 16:17-18; John 12:31<\/p>\n

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This passage has always struck me as very interesting on a human level.<\/p>\n

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For instance, the surprised delight of the Seventy at the power that they\u2019ve been granted seems very believable to me. \u00a0Jesus actually has to caution them that the vesting of that power in them isn\u2019t really the most important thing.<\/p>\n

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More striking to me, though, is the seemingly out-of-the-blue remark in Luke 10:18. \u00a0It\u2019s as if the veil were suddenly and briefly parted, so that Jesus (who was, I think, to some extent affected by the same veil that affects us) caught a glimpse of what followed\u00a0the pre-mortal council and the subsequent \u201cwar\u201d \u00a0in heaven. \u00a0I can\u2019t prove it, but that\u2019s how it\u2019s always seemed to me.<\/p>\n

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\"The<\/a>
A scene within the ruins of the Forum Romanum in Rome. The Son of God didn\u2019t come to earth here, but, rather, in a distant backwater province of the Empire, among the lower economic classes.
(Wikimedia CC public domain photo by Carla Tavares)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Luke 10:21-24<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare Matthew 11:25-27; 13:16-17; John 3:35; 7:29; 10:14-15; 13:3; 17:2, 15<\/p>\n

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For some reason, the Lord doesn\u2019t seem inclined to reveal himself principally to the faculty club at Harvard or through the Times Literary Supplement<\/em>. \u00a0Instead, he calls people who are ignored or even disdained by the self-anointed cultural elite. \u00a0Not just anciently, but today.<\/p>\n

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I sense a pattern.<\/p>\n

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