NOTES for Luk 10:21-24

Christ's first disciples were simple fishermen, not learned men. Among the first to hear the Sermon on the Mount, there were probably few educated people. Yet for some reason it is precisely these foolish and weak ones whom Jesus Himself chooses in order to entrust them with His greatest mystery.

The Savior's cry of thanksgiving is prompted by the fact that seventy of His followers came to Him and joyfully reported that “even the demons submit to us.” The childlike simplicity of their faith, with which they accept what the Lord tells them, and the spontaneity with which they express their joy at the greatness of God's works, are simply incredible. Had they been full of intellectualizing and doubt, had they reasoned “like adults,” the power to work miracles in Jesus' name would hardly have been revealed to them.