Then, calling to him two of the Captains, he gave his orders. "Get ready two hundred men," he said, "to march to Caesarea, with seventy cavalry and two hundred light infantry, starting at nine o'clock to-night."

After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them before Him, by twos, to go to every town or place which He Himself intended to visit.

"I do not say seven times," answered Jesus, "but seventy times seven times.

When the Seventy returned, they exclaimed joyfully, "Master, even the demons submit to us when we utter your name."

Nicodemus too--he who at first had visited Jesus by night--came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, in weight about seventy or eighty pounds.

Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his family, numbering seventy-five persons, to come to him,

"The second, who had received the two talents, came and said, "'Sir, it was two talents you entrusted to me: see, I have gained two more.'