Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
We have here the sending forth of seventy disciples, two and two, into divers parts of the country, to preach the gospel, and to work miracles in those places which Christ himself designed to visit, to make way for his entertainment. This is not taken notice of by the other evangelists: but the instructions here given them are much the same with those given to the twelve. Observe, I.
Commenting on Luke 10:1-16
And heal the sick that are therein,.... Of all their bodily diseases, which would not only show their power and warrant, theft mission and commission, but also their goodness and beneficence to men; and would be a sufficient return for what they ate and drank: and say unto them; not only to the sick that are healed, and those in the house in which they...
Verses 8-12. , . Verse 9. (l) "The kingdom of God" .