And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
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Gill's Exposition
And the seventy returned again,.... The Syriac version adds, "whom he had sent": these disciples having received orders and instructions from Christ, went as he directed them; and when they had…
Barnes' Notes
The devils are subject unto us - The devils obey us. We have been able to cast them out. Through thy name - When commanded in thy name to come out of those who are possessed.
Adam Clarke
The seventy returned again with joy - Bishop Pearce thinks they returned while our Lord was on his slow journey to Jerusalem, and that they had been absent only a few days.
Christ sent forth the seventy disciples as he was going up to Jerusalem to the feast of tabernacles, when he went up, not openly, but as it were in secret (Joh 7:10), having sent abroad so great a…
Cambridge Bible
returned again with joy The success of their mission is more fully recorded than that of the Twelve.
the devils Rather, the demons. They had been bidden (Luk 10:9 ) to "heal the sick;" but these are…
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