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P.1800 – §1 A few days after the return of Jesus and
the twelve to Magadan from Jerusalem, Abner and a group of some fifty disciples
arrived from Bethlehem. At this time there were also assembled at Magadan
Camp the evangelistic corps, the women’s corps, and about one hundred and
fifty other true and tried disciples from all parts of Palestine. After
devoting a few days to visiting and the reorganization of the camp, Jesus
and the twelve began a course of intensive training for this special group
of believers, and from this well-trained and experienced aggregation of
disciples the Master subsequently chose the seventy teachers and sent them
forth to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. This regular instruction began
on Friday, November 4, and continued until Sabbath, November 19.

P.1800 – §2 Jesus gave a talk to this company each
morning. Peter taught methods of public preaching; Nathaniel instructed
them in the art of teaching; Thomas explained how to answer questions;
while Matthew directed the organization of their group finances. The other
apostles also participated in this training in accordance with their special
experience and natural talents.

Vetus Latina was old and inconsistent.

Pope Damasus 1 in 382 commissioned Jerome to

(a) revise the aged Latin Gospels (vetus Latina).

(b) St Jerome translated the Old Testament from Hebrew into Latin in 406 AD.

John Wycliffe died of stroke (1382 AD), but 44 years ;syrt. his body was exhumed and burned as a punishment.

2. THE RICH YOUNG MAN AND OTHERS – P.1801

P.1801 – §4 Over fifty disciples who sought ordination
and appointment to membership in the seventy were rejected by the committee
appointed by Jesus to select these candidates. This committee consisted
of Andrew, Abner, and the acting head of the evangelistic corps. In all
cases where this committee of three were not unanimous in agreement, they
brought the candidate to Jesus, and while the Master never rejected a
single person who craved ordination as a gospel messenger, there were
more than a dozen who, when they had talked with Jesus, no more desired
to become gospel messengers.

P.1801 – §5 One earnest disciple came to Jesus, saying:
"Master, I would be one of your new apostles, but my father is very
old and near death; could I be permitted to return home to bury him?"
To this man Jesus said: "My son, the foxes have holes, and the birds
of heaven have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
You are a faithful disciple, and you can remain such while you return
home to minister to your loved ones, but not so with my gospel messengers.
They have forsaken all to follow me and proclaim the kingdom. If you would
be an ordained teacher, you must let others bury the dead while you go
forth to publish the good news." And this man went away in great
disappointment.

P.1801 – §6 Another disciple came to the Master and
said: "I would become an ordained messenger, but I would like to
go to my home for a short while to comfort my family." And Jesus
replied: "If you would be ordained, you must be willing to forsake
all. The gospel messengers cannot have divided affections. No man, having
put his hand to the plough, if he turns back, is worthy to become a messenger
of the kingdom."

P.1801 – §7 Then Andrew brought to Jesus a certain
rich young man who was a devout believer, and who desired to receive ordination.
This young man, Matadormus,

P.1802 – §0 was a member of the Jerusalem Sanhedrin;
he had heard Jesus teach and had been subsequently instructed in the gospel
of the kingdom by Peter and the other apostles. Jesus talked with Matadormus
concerning the requirements of ordination and requested that he defer
decision until after he had thought more fully about the matter. Early
the next morning, as Jesus was going for a walk, this young man accosted
him and said: "Master, I would know from you the assurances of eternal
life. Seeing that I have observed all the commandments from my youth,
I would like to know what more I must do to gain eternal life?" In
answer to this question Jesus said: "If you keep all the commandments–do
not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness,
do not defraud, honor your parents–you do well, but salvation is the
reward of faith, not merely of works. Do you believe this gospel of the
kingdom?" And Matadormus answered: "Yes, Master, I do believe
everything you and your apostles have taught me." And Jesus said,
"Then are you indeed my disciple and a child of the kingdom."

P.1802 – §1 Then said the young man: "But, Master,
I am not content to be your disciple; I would be one of your new messengers."
When Jesus heard this, he looked down upon him with a great love and said:
"I will have you to be one of my messengers if you are willing to
pay the price, if you will supply the one thing which you lack."
Matadormus replied: "Master, I will do anything if I may be allowed
to follow you." Jesus, kissing the kneeling young man on the forehead,
said: "If you would be my messenger, go and sell all that you have
and, when you have bestowed the proceeds upon the poor or upon your brethren,
come and follow me, and you shall have treasure in the kingdom of heaven."

P.1802 – §2 When Matadormus heard this, his countenance
fell. He arose and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
This wealthy young Pharisee had been raised to believe that wealth was
the token of God’s favor. Jesus knew that he was not free from the love
of himself and his riches. The Master wanted to deliver him from the love
of wealth, not necessarily from the wealth. While the disciples of Jesus
did not part with all their worldly goods, the apostles and the seventy
did. Matadormus desired to be one of the seventy new messengers, and that
was the reason for Jesus’ requiring him to part with all of his temporal
possessions.

P.1802 – §3 Almost every human being has some one
thing which is held on to as a pet evil, and which the entrance into the
kingdom of heaven requires as a part of the price of admission. If Matadormus
had parted with his wealth, it probably would have been put right back
into his hands for administration as treasurer of the seventy. For later
on, after the establishment of the church at Jerusalem, he did obey the
Master’s injunction, although it was then too late to enjoy membership
in the seventy, and he became the treasurer of the Jerusalem church, of
which James the Lord’s brother in the flesh was the head.

P.1802 – §4 Thus always it was and forever will be:
Men must arrive at their own decisions. There is a certain range of the
freedom of choice which mortals may exercise. The forces of the spiritual
world will not coerce man; they allow him to go the way of his own choosing.

P.1802 – §5 Jesus foresaw that Matadormus, with his
riches, could not possibly become an ordained associate of men who had
forsaken all for the gospel; at the same time, he saw that, without his
riches, he would become the ultimate leader of all of them. But, like
Jesus’ own brethren, he never became great in the kingdom

P.1803 – §0 because he deprived himself of that intimate
and personal association with the Master which might have been his experience
had he been willing to do at this time the very thing which Jesus asked,
and which, several years subsequently, he actually did.

P.1803 – §1 Riches have nothing directly to do with
entrance into the kingdom of heaven, but the love of wealth does. The
spiritual loyalties of the kingdom are incompatible with servility to
materialistic mammon. Man may not share his supreme loyalty to a spiritual
ideal with a material devotion.

P.1803 – §2 Jesus never taught that it was wrong
to have wealth. He required only the twelve and the seventy to dedicate
all of their worldly possessions to the common cause. Even then, he provided
for the profitable liquidation of their property, as in the case of the
Apostle Matthew. Jesus many times advised his well-to-do disciples as
he taught the rich man of Rome. The Master regarded the wise investment
of excess earnings as a legitimate form of insurance against future and
unavoidable adversity. When the apostolic treasury was overflowing, Judas
put funds on deposit to be used subsequently when they might suffer greatly
from a diminution of income. This Judas did after consultation with Andrew.
Jesus never personally had anything to do with the apostolic finances
except in the disbursement of alms. But there was one economic abuse which
he many times condemned, and that was the unfair exploitation of the weak,
unlearned, and less fortunate of men by their strong, keen, and more intelligent
fellows. Jesus declared that such inhuman treatment of men, women, and
children was incompatible with the ideals of the brotherhood of the kingdom
of heaven.

3. THE DISCUSSION ABOUT WEALTH – P.1803

P.1803 – §3 By the time Jesus had finished talking
with Matadormus, Peter and a number of the apostles had gathered about
him, and as the rich young man was departing, Jesus turned around to face
the apostles and said: "You see how difficult it is for those who
have riches to enter fully into the kingdom of God! Spiritual worship
cannot be shared with material devotions; no man can serve two masters.
You have a saying that it is `easier for a camel to go through the eye
of a needle than for the heathen to inherit eternal life.’ And I declare
that it is as easy for this camel to go through the needle’s eye as for
these self-satisfied rich ones to enter the kingdom of heaven."

P.1803 – §4 When Peter and the apostles heard these
words, they were astonished exceedingly, so much so that Peter said: "Who
then, Lord, can be saved? Shall all who have riches be kept out of the
kingdom?" And Jesus replied: "No, Peter, but all who put their
trust in riches shall hardly enter into the spiritual life that leads
to eternal progress. But even then, much which is impossible to man is
not beyond the reach of the Father in heaven; rather should we recognize
that with God all things are possible."

P.1803 – §5 As they went off by themselves, Jesus
was grieved that Matadormus did not remain with them, for he greatly loved
him. And when they had walked down by the lake, they sat there beside
the water, and Peter, speaking for the twelve (who were all present by
this time), said: "We are troubled by your words to the rich young
man. Shall we require those who would follow you to give up all their
worldly goods?" And Jesus said: "No, Peter, only those who would
become apostles, and who desire to live with me as you do and as one family.
But the Father requires that the affections of his children be pure and
undivided. Whatever

P.1804 – §0 thing or person comes between you and
the love of the truths of the kingdom, must be surrendered. If one’s wealth
does not invade the precincts of the soul, it is of no consequence in
the spiritual life of those who would enter the kingdom."

P.1804 – §1 And then said Peter, "But, Master,
we have left everything to follow you, what then shall we have?"
And Jesus spoke to all of the twelve: "Verily, verily, I say to you,
there is no man who has left wealth, home, wife, brethren, parents, or
children for my sake and for the sake of the kingdom of heaven who shall
not receive manifold more in this world, perhaps with some persecutions,
and in the world to come eternal life. But many who are first shall be
last, while the last shall often be first. The Father deals with his creatures
in accordance with their needs and in obedience to his just laws of merciful
and loving consideration for the welfare of a universe.

P.1804 – §2 "The kingdom of heaven is like a
householder who was a large employer of men, and who went out early in
the morning to hire laborers to work in his vineyard. When he had agreed
with the laborers to pay them a denarius a day, he sent them into the
vineyard. Then he went out about nine o’clock, and seeing others standing
in the market place idle, he said to them: `Go you also to work in my
vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will pay you.’ And they went at once
to work. Again he went out about twelve and about three and did likewise.
And going to the market place about five in the afternoon, he found still
others standing idle, and he inquired of them, `Why do you stand here
idle all the day?’ And the men answered, `Because nobody has hired us.’
Then said the householder: `Go you also to work in my vineyard, and whatever
is right I will pay you.’

P.1804 – §3 "When evening came, this owner of
the vineyard said to his steward: `Call the laborers and pay them their
wages, beginning with the last hired and ending with the first.’ When
those who were hired about five o’clock came, they received a denarius
each, and so it was with each of the other laborers. When the men who
were hired at the beginning of the day saw how the later comers were paid,
they expected to receive more than the amount agreed upon. But like the
others every man received only a denarius. And when each had received
his pay, they complained to the householder, saying: `These men who were
hired last worked only one hour, and yet you have paid them the same as
us who have borne the burden of the day in the scorching sun.’

P.1804 – §4 "Then answered the householder:
`My friends, I do you no wrong. Did not each of you agree to work for
a denarius a day? Take now that which is yours and go your way, for it
is my desire to give to those who came last as much as I have given to
you. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? or do you
begrudge my generosity because I desire to be good and to show mercy?’"

4. FAREWELL TO THE SEVENTY – P.1804

P.1804 – §5 It was a stirring time about the Magadan
Camp the day the seventy went forth on their first mission. Early that
morning, in his last talk with the seventy, Jesus placed emphasis on the
following:

P.1804 – §6 1. The gospel of the kingdom must be
proclaimed to all the world, to gentile as well as to Jew.

P.1804 – §7 2. While ministering to the sick, refrain
from teaching the expectation of miracles.

P.1805 – §1 3. Proclaim a spiritual brotherhood of
the sons of God, not an outward kingdom of worldly power and material
glory.

P.1805 – §2 4. Avoid loss of time through overmuch
social visiting and other trivialities which might detract from wholehearted
devotion to preaching the gospel.

P.1805 – §3 5. If the first house to be selected
for a headquarters proves to be a worthy home, abide there throughout
the sojourn in that city.

P.1805 – §4 6. Make clear to all faithful believers
that the time for an open break with the religious leaders of the Jews
at Jerusalem has now come.

P.1805 – §5 7. Teach that man’s whole duty is summed
up in this one commandment: Love the Lord your God with all your mind
and soul and your neighbor as yourself. (This they were to teach as man’s
whole duty in place of the 613 rules of living expounded by the Pharisees.)

P.1805 – §6 When Jesus had talked thus to the seventy
in the presence of all the apostles and disciples, Simon Peter took them
off by themselves and preached to them their ordination sermon, which
was an elaboration of the Master’s charge given at the time he laid his
hands upon them and set them apart as messengers of the kingdom. Peter
exhorted the seventy to cherish in their experience the following virtues:

P.1805 – §7 1. Consecrated devotion. To pray always
for more laborers to be sent forth into the gospel harvest. He explained
that, when one so prays, he will the more likely say, "Here am I;
send me." He admonished them to neglect not their daily worship.

P.1805 – §8 2. True courage. He warned them that
they would encounter hostility and be certain to meet with persecution.
Peter told them their mission was no undertaking for cowards and advised
those who were afraid to step out before they started. But none withdrew.

P.1805 – §9 3. Faith and trust. They must go forth
on this short mission wholly unprovided for; they must trust the Father
for food and shelter and all other things needful.

P.1805 – §10 4. Zeal and initiative. They must be
possessed with zeal and intelligent enthusiasm; they must attend strictly
to their Master’s business. Oriental salutation was a lengthy and elaborate
ceremony; therefore had they been instructed to "salute no man by
the way," which was a common method of exhorting one to go about
his business without the waste of time. It had nothing to do with the
matter of friendly greeting.

P.1805 – §11 5. Kindness and courtesy. The Master
had instructed them to avoid unnecessary waste of time in social ceremonies,
but he enjoined courtesy toward all with whom they should come in contact.
They were to show every kindness to those who might entertain them in
their homes. They were strictly warned against leaving a modest home to
be entertained in a more comfortable or influential one.

P.1805 – §12 6. Ministry to the sick. The seventy
were charged by Peter to search out the sick in mind and body and to do
everything in their power to bring about the alleviation or cure of their
maladies.

P.1805 – §13 And when they had been thus charged
and instructed, they started out, two and two, on their mission in Galilee,
Samaria, and Judea.

P.1806 – §1 Although the Jews had a peculiar regard
for the number seventy, sometimes considering the nations of heathendom
as being seventy in number, and although these seventy messengers were
to go with the gospel to all peoples, still as far as we can discern,
it was only coincidental that this group happened to number just seventy.
Certain it was that Jesus would have accepted no less than half a dozen
others, but they were unwilling to pay the price of forsaking wealth and
families.

5. MOVING THE CAMP TO PELLA – P.1806

P.1806 – §2 Jesus and the twelve now prepared to
establish their last headquarters in Perea, near Pella, where the Master
was baptized in the Jordan. The last ten days of November were spent in
council at Magadan, and on Tuesday, December 6, the entire company of
almost three hundred started out at daybreak with all their effects to
lodge that night near Pella by the river. This was the same site, by the
spring, that John the Baptist had occupied with his camp several years
before.

P.1806 – §3 After the breaking up of the Magadan
Camp, David Zebedee returned to Bethsaida and began immediately to curtail
the messenger service. The kingdom was taking on a new phase. Daily, pilgrims
arrived from all parts of Palestine and even from remote regions of the
Roman Empire. Believers occasionally came from Mesopotamia and from the
lands east of the Tigris. Accordingly, on Sunday, December 18, David,
with the help of his messenger corps, loaded on to the pack animals the
camp equipage, then stored in his father’s house, with which he had formerly
conducted the camp of Bethsaida by the lake. Bidding farewell to Bethsaida
for the time being, he proceeded down the lake shore and along the Jordan
to a point about one-half mile north of the apostolic camp; and in less
than a week he was prepared to offer hospitality to almost fifteen hundred
pilgrim visitors. The apostolic camp could accommodate about five hundred.
This was the rainy season in Palestine, and these accommodations were
required to take care of the ever-increasing number of inquirers, mostly
earnest, who came into Perea to see Jesus and to hear his teaching.

P.1806 – §4 David did all this on his own initiative,
though he had taken counsel with Philip and Matthew at Magadan. He employed
the larger part of his former messenger corps as his helpers in conducting
this camp; he now used less than twenty men on regular messenger duty.
Near the end of December and before the return of the seventy, almost
eight hundred visitors were gathered about the Master, and they found
lodging in David’s camp.

6. THE RETURN OF THE SEVENTY – P.1806

P.1806 – §5 On Friday, December 30, while Jesus was
away in the near-by hills with Peter, James, and John, the seventy messengers
were arriving by couples, accompanied by numerous believers, at the Pella
headquarters. All seventy were assembled at the teaching site about five
o’clock when Jesus returned to the camp. The evening meal was delayed
for more than an hour while these enthusiasts for the gospel of the kingdom
related their experiences. David’s messengers had brought much of this
news to the apostles during previous weeks, but it was truly inspiring
to hear these newly ordained teachers of the gospel personally tell how
their message had been received by hungry Jews and gentiles. At last Jesus

P.1807 – §0 was able to see men going out to spread
the good news without his personal presence. The Master now knew that
he could leave this world without seriously hindering the progress of
the kingdom.

P.1807 – §1 When the seventy related how "even
the devils were subject" to them, they referred to the wonderful
cures they had wrought in the cases of victims of nervous disorders. Nevertheless,
there had been a few cases of real spirit possession relieved by these
ministers, and referring to these, Jesus said: "It is not strange
that these disobedient minor spirits should be subject to you, seeing
that I beheld Satan falling as lightning from heaven. But rejoice not
so much over this, for I declare to you that, as soon as I return to my
Father, we will send forth our spirits into the very minds of men so that
no more can these few lost spirits enter the minds of unfortunate mortals.
I rejoice with you that you have power with men, but be not lifted up
because of this experience but the rather rejoice that your names are
written on the rolls of heaven, and that you are thus to go forward in
an endless career of spiritual conquest."

P.1807 – §2 And it was at this time, just before
partaking of the evening meal, that Jesus experienced one of those rare
moments of emotional ecstasy which his followers had occasionally witnessed.
He said: "I thank you, my Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that,
while this wonderful gospel was hidden from the wise and self-righteous,
the spirit has revealed these spiritual glories to these children of the
kingdom. Yes, my Father, it must have been pleasing in your sight to do
this, and I rejoice to know that the good news will spread to all the
world even after I shall have returned to you and the work which you have
given me to perform. I am mightily moved as I realize you are about to
deliver all authority into my hands, that only you really know who I am,
and that only I really know you, and those to whom I have revealed you.
And when I have finished this revelation to my brethren in the flesh,
I will continue the revelation to your creatures on high."

P.1807 – §3 When Jesus had thus spoken to the Father,
he turned aside to speak to his apostles and ministers: "Blessed
are the eyes which see and the ears which hear these things. Let me say
to you that many prophets and many of the great men of the past ages have
desired to behold what you now see, but it was not granted them. And many
generations of the children of light yet to come will, when they hear
of these things, envy you who have heard and seen them."

P.1807 – §4 Then, speaking to all the disciples,
he said: "You have heard how many cities and villages have received
the good news of the kingdom, and how my ministers and teachers have been
received by both the Jew and the gentile. And blessed indeed are these
communities which have elected to believe the gospel of the kingdom. But
woe upon the light-rejecting inhabitants of Chorazin, Bethsaida-Julias,
and Capernaum, the cities which did not well receive these messengers.
I declare that, if the mighty works done in these places had been done
in Tyre and Sidon, the people of these so-called heathen cities would
have long since repented in sackcloth and ashes. It shall indeed be more
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment."

P.1807 – §5 The next day being the Sabbath, Jesus
went apart with the seventy and said to them: "I did indeed rejoice
with you when you came back bearing the good tidings of the reception
of the gospel of the kingdom by so many people scattered throughout Galilee,
Samaria, and Judea. But why were you so surprisingly elated? Did you not
expect that your message would manifest power in its delivery? Did you
go forth with so little faith in this gospel that you come back

P.1808 – §0 in surprise at its effectiveness? And
now, while I would not quench your spirit of rejoicing, I would sternly
warn you against the subtleties of pride, spiritual pride. If you could
understand the downfall of Lucifer, the iniquitous one, you would solemnly
shun all forms of spiritual pride.

P.1808 – §1 "You have entered upon this great
work of teaching mortal man that he is a son of God. I have shown you
the way; go forth to do your duty and be not weary in well doing. To you
and to all who shall follow in your steps down through the ages, let me
say: I always stand near, and my invitation-call is, and ever shall be,
Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am true and loyal,
and you shall find spiritual rest for your souls."

P.1808 – §2 And they found the Master’s words to
be true when they put his promises to the test. And since that day countless
thousands also have tested and proved the surety of these same promises.

7. PREPARATION FOR THE LAST MISSION – P.1808

P.1808 – §3 The next few days were busy times in
the Pella camp; preparations for the Perean mission were being completed.
Jesus and his associates were about to enter upon their last mission,
the three months’ tour of all Perea, which terminated only upon the Master’s
entering Jerusalem for his final labors on earth. Throughout this period
the headquarters of Jesus and the twelve apostles was maintained here
at the Pella camp.

P.1808 – §4 It was no longer necessary for Jesus
to go abroad to teach the people. They now came to him in increasing numbers
each week and from all parts, not only from Palestine but from the whole
Roman world and from the Near East. Although the Master participated with
the seventy in the tour of Perea, he spent much of his time at the Pella
camp, teaching the multitude and instructing the twelve. Throughout this
three months’ period at least ten of the apostles remained with Jesus.

P.1808 – §5 The women’s corps also prepared to go
out, two and two, with the seventy to labor in the larger cities of Perea.
This original group of twelve women had recently trained a larger corps
of fifty women in the work of home visitation and in the art of ministering
to the sick and the afflicted. Perpetua, Simon Peter’s wife, became a
member of this new division of the women’s corps and was intrusted with
the leadership of the enlarged women’s work under Abner. After Pentecost
she remained with her illustrious husband, accompanying him on all of
his missionary tours; and on the day Peter was crucified in Rome, she
was fed to the wild beasts in the arena. This new women’s corps also had
as members the wives of Philip and Matthew and the mother of James and
John.

P.1808 – §6 The work of the kingdom now prepared
to enter upon its terminal phase under the personal leadership of Jesus.
And this present phase was one of spiritual depth in contrast with the
miracle-minded and wonder-seeking multitudes who followed after the Master
during the former days of popularity in Galilee. However, there were still
any number of his followers who were material-minded, and who failed to
grasp the truth that the kingdom of heaven is the spiritual brotherhood
of man founded on the eternal fact of the universal fatherhood of God.