Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you; heal the sick in it and say to them, “The kingdom of God has come near to you.” Luke 10:8–9 The mission of the seventy—After Jesus sends out the twelve Apostles to preach the kingdom of God and to heal (Luke 9:2), He then sends seventy emissaries out to proclaim the Gospel. Who are these seventy? Most of these missionaries remain unnamed in the Bible. Later, however, Luke reports Cleopas and his
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