The Seventy Disciples

Q

I was reading Luke 10:1-24 and was wondering who were the seventy. Who were these seventy disciples? Do we know anything about them as to their names or anything for that matter?

A

The seventy, or seventy-two in some early manuscripts, are not named and so we don’t know anything about them on a personal level. Only Luke mentions them, and only in chapter 10. Certainly, they became part of the Early Church and helped spread the gospel.