Luke 10:1 - Was there 70 or 72?

Posted : 9 Dec, 2010 02:19 PM

Luke 10:1 - Was there 70 or 72?





Does it really matter?



Believing these verses below as unfulfilled prophecy means yes and should be 72.



Matthew 10:22-23, "And you will be hated by all for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. 23 "When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.



I. External Evidence:



The pivotal question is the inclusion or omission of one word, duo. Include the word, and it reads "72." Exclude the word, and it reads "70."







Luke 10:1



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New International Version (�1984)

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.



New Living Translation (�2007)

The Lord now chose seventy-two other disciples and sent them ahead in pairs to all the towns and places he planned to visit.



English Standard Version (�2001)

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.



New American Standard Bible (�1995)

Now after this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come.



International Standard Version (�2008)

After this, the Lord appointed seventy other disciples and was about to send them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place that he intended to go.



King James Bible

After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.



Other seventy - Seventy others besides the apostles. They were appointed for a different purpose from the apostles. The apostles were to be with him; to hear his instructions; to be witnesses of his miracles, his sufferings, his death, his resurrection and ascension, that they might "then" go and proclaim all these things to the world. The seventy were sent out to preach immediately, and chiefly where he himself was about to come. They were appointed for a temporary object. They were to go into the villages and towns, and prepare the way for his coming. The number "seventy" was a favorite number among the Jews. Thus, the family of Jacob that came into Egypt consisted of seventy, Genesis 46:27. The number of elders that Moses appointed to aid him was the same, Numbers 11:16, Numbers 11:25. The number which composed the great Sanhedrin, or council of the nation. was the same. It is not improbable that our Saviour appointed this number with reference to the fact that it so often occurred among the Jews, or after the example of Moses, who appointed seventy to aid him in his work; but it is evident that the office was "temporary" - that it had a specific design - and of course that it would be improper to attempt to find now a "continuation" of it, or a parallel to it, in the Christian ministry.

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