After this, the Master appointed seventy-two other disciples, and sent them on as his Messengers, two and two, in advance, to every town and place that he was himself intending to visit.

When the seventy-two returned, they exclaimed joyfully: "Master, even the demons submit to us when we use your name."

Then he called two Captains, and ordered them to have two hundred men ready to go to Caesarea, as well as seventy troopers and two hundred lancers, by nine o'clock that night,

But Jesus answered: "Not seven times, but 'seventy times seven.'

And you, the steward said to the next, 'how much do you owe?' 'Seventy quarters of wheat,' he replied. 'Here is your agreement,' the steward said; 'make it fifty-six.'

Then Joseph sent an urgent invitation to his father Jacob and to his relations, seventy-five persons in all;

There were about seventy-six of us on board, all told.