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Samuel Dickey Gordon notes that they were sent out as thirty-five deputations of two each. [4] The number may derive from the seventy nations of Genesis 10 or the many other occurrences of the number seventy in the Bible, or the seventy-two translators of the Septuagint from the Letter of Aristeas. [5]
He is traditionally considered one of the 72 disciples sent out by Jesus in Luke 10. [1] He was a missionary in Galatia and became a companion of Paul . The name 'Crescens' is the present-active participle of the Latin word crescere , and means 'increasing'.
Luke 10 is the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records the sending of seventy disciples by Jesus, the famous parable about the Good Samaritan, and his visit to the house of Mary and Martha. [1]
Thaddeus' story is embodied in the Syriac document, Doctrine of Addai, [14] which recounts the role of Addai and makes him one of the 72 Apostles sent out to spread the Christian faith. [15] By the time the legend had returned to Syria, the purported site of the miraculous image, it had been embroidered into a tissue of miraculous happenings. [16]
The "seventy disciples" or "seventy-two disciples" (known in the Eastern Christian traditions as the "Seventy Apostles") were early emissaries of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. [63] According to Luke, the only gospel in which they appear, Jesus appointed them and sent them out in pairs on a specific mission which is detailed in the text.
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According to the 4th century Apostolic Constitutions (7.46), Archippus was the first bishop of Laodicea in Phrygia (now part of Turkey).Another tradition states that he was one of the 72 disciples appointed by Jesus Christ in Luke 10:1.
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