Sending of the Seventy

gospel · 29 · Galilee

After the Twelve he appointed seventy others and sent them ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go: 'the harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few.' The Seventy this dataset carries as a group — the lists of Hippolytus and the Book of the Bee among them — are constituted here, and half the early sees of the East claim a founder from among them.

To send a wider circle ahead of him into every town.

Seventy return with joy; the Seventy become a second order of the tradition's memory.

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