Note 4 — Chapter XIII · RESURGENCE OF THE HISTORICAL PROBLEM
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Upon this kind of basis Luke erects a new structure. The twelve are sent forth to exorcise, heal, and preach, unfurnished; and as before they are to give testimony against those who will not receive them. “And they departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the Gospel, and healing everywhere.” “And the apostles, when they were returned, declared unto him what things they had done.” The story is not suppressed, and it is supplied with a conclusion; but it is on the mission of the seventy that stress is visibly laid: they “return with joy,” and are told to rejoice that their names are written in heaven. “In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit”; and after the discourse on the Father and the Son4 the disciples are “privately” told that many prophets and kings had desired in vain to see and hear what they had seen and heard.