Hi everyone. Welcome back to Logical Bible Study and this is the Catholic podcast where we try to prepare you a little better for the gospel reading that you're going to hear at Mass today.

So you can listen to this podcast before Mass, hopefully, if you can, to help get a better

feel for what's really going on in the reading.

And today we're going to look at a longer passage, usually the ones in Luke are quite short,

but this is a bit of a longer one, so we'll get into it.

It's Luke chapter 10

verses 1 to 9. The Lord appointed 72 others and sent them out ahead of him, in pairs, to all the

towns and places that he himself was to visit. He said to them, the harvest is rich, but the labourers are few. So ask the

lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest. Start off now, but remember, I am sending

you out like lambs among wolves. Carry no purse, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road.

Whatever house you go into, let your first words be, peace to this house. And if a man of peace

lives there, your peace will go and rest on him. If not, it will come back to you. Stay in the same

house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages. Do not move

from house to house. Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is set before you.

Cure those in it who are sick and say, the kingdom of God is very near to you.

So what's the context of this really interesting passage?

So Jesus has just started to move towards Jerusalem.

So it's actually getting pretty close to the end of Jesus' ministry.

And we're in the part of Luke's Gospel that's often called the Ministry to Judea and Perea.

The episode we're looking at here is often called the Appointment of the 70.

So we're going to see here Jesus appoint 70 disciples and this is only found in Luke.

The other gospels record Jesus instructions to the apostles and we've already had that

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