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Luke 10

Luke 10:8

Jesus Sends the Seventy-Two · Luke 10:1–12
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Translations

Modern
If you enter a town and they welcome you, eat whatever is set before you.
Traditional
And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
Literal
And into whatever city you may enter and they may receive you, eat the things set before you.
Latin
Et in quamcumque civitatem intraveritis, et susceperint vos, manducate quæ apponuntur vobis:

Original

Greek
English
If you enter a town and they welcome you, eat whatever is set before you.

Notes

Luke 10:1–20

the Lord appointed seventy-two others: The mission of the twelve disciples represented the ministry of Jesus to Israel (9:1–6). This mission represented his outreach to the Gentiles. The number 72 represents the nations of the world. Genesis 10 lists 70 nations in the Hebrew text, but the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint) lists 72.

Luke, who used the Septuagint, likely wrote 72, and then a later scribe changed it to match the Hebrew text. The main idea is that the good news about Jesus and the kingdom of God is for both Jews and Gentiles.

Events

Parallels

Matthew 9:35–38

Glossary

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