Good morning. We have seen the following verse before; but my Bible has an interesting comment about it: “Follow Me.” “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.” If his father had already died, the man would have been occupied with the burial then (Jews bury people right away). Evidently he wanted to wait until after his father‘s death, which might’ve been years away. Jesus appointed 70 others and sent them to every city to which He was coming. And now the verse that is like the one with the woman at the well and why it might be that Samaritan village: “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” The 70 return saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.” “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning. I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. (The word nothing is a double negative in Greek. That means that it is a certainty that it won’t happen.) Don’t rejoice that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.” The word recorded is in the perfect tense, which again means that it is an action that has been completed in the past which has an effect on the present. Father thank You that the reader has the authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing whatsoever will injure him/her.

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