What does Luke 10:6 Mean?

Context Summary

In the appointment of the Seventy there was perhaps an allusion to Numbers 11:24-25. In this case, as in that, there was the endowment of conspicuous spiritual power. We can only prepare the way for our Lord. No one of us can suffice for the soul of man. We must always say with the Baptist: "There cometh one mightier than I." Would that Christ always came where we had been! See Luke 10:1.

Let us not forget to pray for laborers; but if we pray truly we shall endeavor to answer our own prayers, by going and by inciting others to go. How often a child's life becomes dedicated through hands being laid on the young head by some servant of God, who says: "When you grow up, you must work for the Lord Jesus!"

The Lord asks for simplicity. We may not in our northern climate be able to carry out these precepts precisely and literally. But the inner thought of His words is that we are to be absorbed in giving the message, leaving all things else as a very secondary question and allowing God to care for us and ours. [source]

Chapter Summary: Luke 10

¹  Jesus sends out at once seventy disciples to work miracles, and to preach;
¹³  pronounces a woe against certain cities
¹⁷  The seventy return with joy;
¹⁸  he shows them wherein to rejoice,
²¹  and thanks his Father for his grace;
²³  magnifies the happy estate of his church;
²⁵  teaches the lawyer how to attain eternal life,
³⁰  and tells the parable of the good Samaritan;
³⁸  reprimands Martha, and commends Mary her sister