Luke Chapter 10 verse 17 Holy Bible
And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject unto us in thy name.
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And the seventy came back with joy, saying, Lord, even the evil spirits are under our power in your name.
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And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us through thy name.
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And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
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The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"
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And the seventy turned back with joy, saying, `Sir, and the demons are being subjected to us in thy name;'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy Name. How wavering and hesitating the faith of the chosen followers of Jesus was, even at this late period of his public ministry, is clear from this frank confession of surprise at their powers. They were contrasting the present with what had lately happened at the foot of the Mount of Transfiguration, where the disciples were utterly unable to heal the possessed boy. What a contrast do these true writers of the gospel story paint between themselves and their Master! They never seem to tire in their self-depreciatory descriptions. They describe with the same careful, truthful pen their slowness to understand what afterwards became so clear to them - their mutual jealousies, their covetous hopes of a brilliant future, their shrinking from pain and suffering, their utter failure when they try to imitate their Master; and now we find them marvelling at their own - to them - unexpected success in their imitation of him.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) And the seventy returned again with joy.--It is obvious from the immediate sequence of the two facts that the mission of the Seventy was, as stated above, confined within narrow limits of space and time.Lord, even the devils are subject unto us.--Better, the demons. The tone in which the disciples speak is that of a joyful surprise. They had not looked for such great and immediate results. They had thought that the power to cast out demons had been confined to our Lord's immediate action or to that of the Twelve, and they found that they too possessed the power to rescue the spirits of men from thraldom. With them, as with others, the consciousness of a new power was attended with a new pleasure, in this case, with that of high spiritual exultation.
