The Forgotten Seventy
By: Mike Mazzalongo Posted: November, 2025
Discussion Questions
- Why do you think the New Testament leaves the seventy unnamed?
- How does their story encourage "ordinary" disciples who are not well known?
- In what ways can we rejoice more in being known by God than being remembered by people?
Sources
- ChatGPT (OpenAI)
- Hippolytus of Rome, On the Seventy Apostles
- Pseudo-Dorotheus and Pseudo-Epiphanius traditions on the Seventy
- Orthodox Church commemoration of the Seventy Apostles