Luke 10:1

Footnotes

1. 1 Grk “And after these things.” Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
2. 2 There is a difficult textual problem here and in v. 17, where the number is either “seventy” (א A C L W Θ Ξ Ψ f1, 13 𝔐 and several church fathers and early versions) or “seventy-two” (𝔓75 B D 0181 lat as well as other versions and fathers). The more difficult reading is “seventy-two,” since scribes would be prone to assimilate this passage to several OT passages that refer to groups of seventy people (Num 11:13–17; Deut 10:22; Judg 8:30; 2 Kgs 10:1 et al.); this reading also has slightly better support. “Seventy” could be the preferred reading if scribes drew from the tradition of the number of translators of the , which the puts at seventy-two ( ), although this is far less likely. All things considered, “seventy-two” is a much more difficult reading and accounts for the rise of the other. Only Luke notes a second larger mission like the one in 9:1–6.
3. 3 Or “city.”