Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 10:1

"Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come." — Luke 10:1 (ASV)

They were to go before Christ, and be his heralds. What a mercy it is when the preacher knows that his Master is coming after him, when he can hear the sound of his Master's feet behind him! What courage it gives him! He knows that, though it is very little that he can do, he is the thin end of the wedge preparing the way for One who can do everything.