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[[File:Sanhedrin.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The seventy chosen by [[Moses]]<Ref>Numbers 11:24  And [[Moses]] went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. 25  And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.</Ref> were not to rule over the people but were to oversee that which was given to God. Later in the [[Apostasy|apostacy]] of Judea and [[The Hasmonean Whoredom]] they were given legislative powers over the people. There were seventy that followed Christ by His [[appoint]]ment. Their purpose would be fulfilled within the body of the 120 at [[Pentecost]] whom the [[Holy Spirit]] descended upon. ''It is the spirit that giveth life.'']]

== The seventy of Salome ==

The Sanhedrin (Greek: Συνέδριον, synedrion, "sitting together," hence "assembly" or "council"). There were actually two courts called Sanhedrin, the ''Greater'' Sanhedrin and the ''Lesser'' Sanhedrin.<Ref>"A court that issued one death sentence in seven years would be called a bloody Sanhedrin" (Mishnah Makkot 1.10).Mishnah states: “A Sanhedrin that executes one in seventy years is murderous (Mishnah Makkot 1.10).” The Sanhedrin ruled in favor of monetary restitution.  Moses stopped his foot and let God be the judge and Peter did the same with Ananias.</Ref>

At Jerusalem, the Great Sanhedrin,  the supreme judicial and legislative body, ceased to exist after the rebellion against Rome in AD 66–70. There were Sanhedrin that assembled at Jabneh and other localities in Palestine. The composition of the Sanhedrin included primarily the participation of the two major parties of the day, the [[Sadducees]] and the [[Pharisees]].

A lesser Sanhedrin of 23 judges was commonly appointed to certain cities. There was to be only one Great Sanhedrin of 69 Mufla and the ''Av Beit Din'' or chief of the Sanhedrin. Together they were the 70. There was also the ''Nasi'' who held the position similar to a president. It had a limited legislative role and acted as the Supreme Court, hearing appeals from cases decided by lesser courts. 

The last  ''Av Beit Din'' of the Sanhedrin in about 20 BC was said to be [[Menahem the Essene]], who prophesied that the Messiah would come during [[Herod]]'s reign as king when there was little likelihood of him ever becoming king. Some say Menahem the Essene resigned from the Sanhedrin or "stalked out" to follow an "evil way" while others say he "went forth [out] to the King's [God's] service, and there went forth [out] with him eighty pairs of disciples dressed in regally (in silk)."<Ref>"17 MENAHEM WENT FORTH AND SHAMMAI ENTERED etc. Whither did he go forth? Abaye said: He went forth into evil courses.18 Raba said: He went forth to the King's service. Thus it is also taught: Menahem went forth to the King's service, and there went forth with him eighty pairs of disciples dressed in silk." Baraita, The Babylonian Talmud, Hagigah or Chagigah, 16b.
"MISHNAH. JOSE B. JO'EZER39 SAYS THAT [ON A FESTIVAL-DAY] THE '''LAYING ON OF HANDS [ON THE HEAD OF A SACRIFICE]'''40 MAY NOT BE PERFORMED;41 JOSEPH B. JOHANAN SAYS THAT IT MAY BE PERFORMED.42 JOSHUA B. PERAHIA SAYS THAT IT MAY NOT RE PERFORMED; NITTAI THE ARBELITE43 SAYS THAT IT MAY BE PERFORMED. JUDAH B. TARBAI SAYS THAT IT MAY NOT BE PERFORMED; SIMEON A. SHETAH SAYS THAT IT MAY BE PERFORMED. SHEMAIAH SAYS THAT IT MAY BE PERFORMED; ABTALION SAYS THAT IT MAY NOT BE PERFORMED.44 '''HILLEL AND MENAHEM DID NOT DIFFER. MENAHEM WENT FORTH,45 SHAMMAI ENTERED.46 SHAMMAI SAYS THAT IT MAY NOT BE PERFORMED; HILLEL SAYS THAT IT MAY BE PERFORMED.'''" Talmud - Mas. Chagigah 16a.</Ref> 

What he may have done was follow after [[The Way]] of [[John the Baptist]] and [[Jesus]] who was the highest son of David, the [[Christ]], the king. 

Institutions of men change over time. There is a vast difference between the [[early Church]] and the [[Modern Church]]. There is also a difference between the institutions of [[Moses]] and those professed and established by the [[Pharisees]] or [[Sadducees]].

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[[Israel]] and what became known as Judea got farther from the precepts of God's kingdom. Because the '''[[voice]]''' of the people sought a ruler to take authority. The prophecy of [[1 Samuel 8]] would eventually oppress them under [[tribute]] and tyranny.

The Hellenized John Hyrcanus in 113 BCE left the control of the kingdom to his wife and the high priesthood to his son Aristobulus. Aristobulus had his mother starved to death and threw three of his brothers in prison and another he eventually killed.

Aristobulus was the first Hasmonean to actually crown himself king and then in 103 B.C., died of illness whereupon his wife, Salome Alexandra, released his brothers from prison and married the eldest, Alexander Jannaeus, in accordance with the biblical levirate law (Yibum).

Alexander Jannaeus Hellenic ways were also despised by the people. In one incident he had over 6,000 men  - according to Josephus - put to death for protesting his abuses. But that was nothing compared to the 50,000 Jews who were killed due to the [[Pharisees]], a powerful school of rabbis, and their revolt.

Alexander Jannaeus died in 76 BCE, leaving his kingdom to his wife, Queen Salome Alexandra.

'''Queen Salome''' secured her power by siding with the [[Pharisees]] and establishing a rabbinical council with legislative powers and judicial authority which was called the [[Sanhedrin]]. 

The modern equivalent of the Sanhedrin of Queen Salome is the congresses and parliaments of the governments of the [[world]] who as lawmakers put heavy and grievous burdens on the people that often they themselves will not carry. The modern equivalent of the [[Pharisees]] are [[Modern Christians]] who ''strain at gnats but swallow the camel'' of [[false religion]]s.

== The seventy of Moses ==

This new Sanhedrin created by Salome had little to do with what [[Moses]] had set up back in [[Numbers 11]]:16 

* "And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee."

The "elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people" are merely heads of families. They are also called by the people to serve as ministers of congregations of the people or even ministers of ministers of the people. 

But the phrase "officers over them" does not include the words "over them" in the Hebrew text. They are officers but the question is over what and in what capacity?

In [[Numbers 35]] we see that they were also told to establish 48 [[Cities of refuge]] which were really a system of appeals courts created to prevent chaos and vengeance killings and provide for the administration of the "[[weightier matters]] of the law, judgment, [[mercy]], and [[faith]]".


The word "officer"  is from  ''shoter'' ShemTetReish<Ref>{{07860}}</Ref> which only appear in this form [http://biblehub.com/hebrew/veshoterav_7860.htm VavShemTetReishYodVav]  וְשֹׁטְרָ֑יו here and in [[Exodus 5]]:10. There it refers not to the ''taskmasters'' of [[Pharaoh]] who ruled over the people but the "officers" who controlled the flow of ''straw''.


The words "that they may stand" is from the [[Hebrew]] word ''yatsab'' TzadikBeit<Ref>{{03320}}</Ref> but appears as [http://biblehub.com/hebrew/vehityatztzevu_3320.htm VavHeyTavYodTzadikBeitVav] וְהִֽתְיַצְּב֥וּ and in [[Deuteronomy 31]]:14 and [[Jeremiah 46]]:4. It is also separated by a Vav at the beginning and end as we see with the word ''officer'' [http://biblehub.com/hebrew/veshoterav_7860.htm VavShemTetReishYodVav].

They were not just to stand but [http://biblehub.com/hebrew/vehityatztzevu_3320.htm VavHeyTavYodTzadikBeitVav]. But stand separated by two [[Vav]]s in the ''house'' [[Beit]] of ''righteousness'' [[Tzadik]] connected to an ''emphasis'' [[Hey]] on the ''divine spark'' [[Yod]]  of ''faith'' [[Tav]] is a unique form and message concerning how they are to stand.

The plan of God and [[Moses]], to say nothing of Jesus, was not to bring men under the arbitrary authority of tribunals. The purpose of the Seventy was more a part of the appeals court established through the [[cities of refuge]]. They did not act alone but filled the function of Supreme Court, without becoming ''[[gods]] many'', and a [[Senate]] without legislative rule over the people. Through mutual cooperation of ''free assemblies'' including ''All the ministers of the People'' chosen through the [[tens]],and their servant Senate of  "Seventy Seniors", became and functioned as  a voluntary society, the '''Great Congregation or Assembly'''.<Ref>"Moreover, there was a [[Senate]] of Seventy, chosen out of the two former Ranks of Persons; and they were designed at first to be Coadjutors to Moses Numb. 11. 16. You will find that these are mention'd together with the other two in Ios. 23. 2. & 24. 1. for by the [[Elders]] in both these Places are meant, I conceive, the Seventy Seniors, and by the 
Heads of Israel we are to understand the Representatives and Governours of the Tribes; and by Officers and Judges the Ordinary and Inferiour Justices, viz. Captains of Thousands, &c... 
: It was the first of these, namely, the Judicature of Seventy Men, which was most considerable, and therefore I will add a few Words concerning it: 
: Because [[Moses]] was President over it, the Jews called it the Iudicature of Seventy one; and others, adding Aaron to that Number, say, it consisted of Seventy two. This famous Council, which was at first appointed by Moses in the Wilderness, was afterwards a Settled Council for governing the People in the Land of Canaan, and was called the Sanhedrin, (which is a Greek Word originally, but crept into the Hebrew, as other Greek Words have done) but to distinguish it from the Lesser one, it is called the ''Great Sanhedrin''... 
: It was also a Chancery, or Court of Equity. But the more special and peculiar Work of this Court was to try the most Weighty Causes: these most commonly were brought before these Seventy Seniors: Matters of the Highest Nature, the most Important Affairs of the Kingdom, and such as belong'd to the Safety of the Publick, were tried here. This Great [[Senate]] was chosen out of all the Tribes, and consisted of Lay-men, Priests and Levites. The King, or Chief Civil Magistrate, was the Head of it, as Moses was at first. This Assembly of the Seventy Senators was look'd upon as the Chiefest and Highest Court of the Jews. ... 
: The Captains of Thousands, &c. the Seventy Seniors, and All the Chief of the People met together, made this Great Assembly, this Mikel Gemot, this Parliament. This is that (they say) which is called the Congregation of the Lord, and the Whole Assembly of Israel, and the Whole Congregation, and the Great Congregation or Assembly. These were the several Courts of Judg∣ment  amongst the Jews." OF THE EXCELLENCY & PERFECTION OF THE Holy Scriptures. John Edwards   1637-1716.</Ref>

The [[Pharisees]] were neither patriots to God the Father's righteous covenant nor their own written constitution of a nation created by men. Their twisting of the words of the [[Torah]] through [[sophistry]] they had produced a religion that brought in [[damnable heresies]] until they did not know [[Moses]] and would not know [[Christ]] and His  [[Gospel of the kingdom]]. Their love of legalism brought about a Sanhedrin that made laws, binding the people to the traditions of that body politic, hypocritically<Ref>[[Matthew 15]]:7-8; [[Matthew 23]]:5; Matthew 23:13-33</Ref> stifling if not strangling the very liberty under God's kingdom which they professed.

They were “painfully punctilious about legal trifles and casuistries, while reckless of truth, righteousness, and the fear of God; cleansing the exterior man while full of iniquity within.”<Ref>Copyright Information, © Fausset's Bible Dictionary</Ref>

The contrast of Paul's bondage under the Mishna or law of the Pharisee explains his uncompromising stand on Christian justification by faith only. It was that law that had governed every aspect of their life which was [[Cross#Nailed_to_his_cross|nailed to the cross]].

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== The seventy of Christ ==

There were seventy that followed Christ by His [[appoint]]ment.<Ref name="Sanhedrin">
[[Luke 10]]:1  After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come... 17  And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.</Ref>Their purpose would be fulfilled within the body of the 120 at [[Pentecost]] whom the [[Holy Spirit]] descended upon. ''It is the spirit that giveth life.''

Where did these seventy come from? What was going on at that time in history? Who knew Jesus was coming? Simeon<Ref>Luke 2:25 ¶ And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name [was] Simeon; and the same man [was] just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the [[Holy Ghost]] was upon him.</Ref> knew and so did [[Menahem the Essene]]?

Jesus was the king because he was the [[Christ]], the [[Messiah]], the [[anointed]] and thousands of Jews accepted him as the rightful king. Those who did not departed from the kingdom and made themselves subject to [[Caesar]].

When the [[Pharisees]] sat in the seat of the government their legalism imposed itself through statutes, often as heavy burdens, and tyrannical kings like [[Herod]]. But they knew that they could not subject the people without their [[consent]].<Ref>[[Proverbs 1]]:10 “My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.”</Ref>

*    “A vow is a solemn promise made to God to perform or to abstain from performing a certain thing.”<Ref>Smith's Bible Dictionary - Bible Dictionary</Ref>

This is why Jesus and James state that the people should not be [[swear]]ing and takin oaths nor praying to the [[Fathers]] of the earth.

With the aid of the king they offered social [[welfare]] schemes that spread over the Roman [[world]] in the form of [[Corban]] that would make the word of God to none effect. All that was required was the consent of the people through some system of application and registered membership under the guise of welfare and care. Soon their temple treasuries filled with the contributions of the people for the care of the widows and orphans, aged and infirm. Though this was a religion, it was not [[pure religion]].

[[Herod]] would establish such a system [[Corban]] justifying the [[covetous practices]] in the minds of many like [[Rome]] had done [[Polybius|corrupting their own people]] through the dismantling of the [[republic]].  This [[Public religion]] of [[Herod]] needed to be regulated by the Sanhedrin who functioned according to a spirit of [[force]]. [[John the Baptist]] would preach another way based on [[charity]] rather than [[force]]. [[The Way]] taught by John and Jesus would be at the core of the [[Christian conflict]] with the [[Imperial Cult of Rome]].

These state-run [[socialist]] welfare systems of the [[world]] had become popular at that time. Their use of force and violence is what was meant by:

* [[Matthew 11]]:12 And from the days of [[John the Baptist]] until now the kingdom of heaven '''[[971|suffereth violence]]''', and the violent take it by [[force]].
* [[Luke 16]]:16 The law and the prophets [were] until [[John]]: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man '''[[971|presseth]]''' into it.

The [[Pharisees]] still had some charity, many rituals and ceremonies, but their [[freewill offerings]] were a token of the overall [[welfare]] of their society. Most of the [[benefits]] of their government were provided by funds collected through [[taxation]]. The once charitable offerings of the people had become an accounted scribes and [[force]]d contribution given to the temple. 

The amount was determined by the legislating powers of the Sanhedrin and the kings. That power to exercise authority over the people grew, as the people applied for the entitlements and benefits of the growing bureaucracy of the Pharisees. What should have been for their [[welfare]] had become a [[snare]].<Ref>[[Psalms 69]]:22 “Let their table become a [[snare]] before them: and that which should have been for their [[welfare]], let it become a trap.”
: [[Romans 11]]:9 “And David saith, 'Let their table be made a [[snare]], and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:'”</Ref>

The [[Pharisees]] were popular because of their stoic modesty. On the outside, they gave the appearance of service and sacrifice but the living quarters of the [[priests]] of the [[temples]] were more lavish than that of the kings. But it was the participation by the people in the political and religious schemes of the Pharisees that made them mutually implicit in that sin of statutory [[Corban]].

== The seventy of Jacob ==

* Exodus 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].

In [[Egypt]] the people could eat of the [[One purse#Civic Flesh pots|flesh pots]] of the [[Pharaoh]].<Ref>Exodus 16:3 “And the children of [[Israel]] said unto them, 'Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.'”</Ref> Since the Egyptians were vegetarians, this reference to flesh pots<Ref>Ezekiel 11:3 “Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh.”</Ref> had nothing to do with their diet. This was a [[metaphor]] describing a social welfare system of the pharaoh as a ''benefactor'' who could exercise authority and it included the governmental structure of corvée and [[corban]] which God opposed.<Ref>[[Ezekiel 11]]:7 “ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; 'Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they [are] the flesh, and this [city is] the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.'”</Ref>

The sons of Jacob had become entangled in [[Egypt]] and God said to never return there again.<Ref>[[Deuteronomy 17]]:16 “ ...nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.”</Ref> Because they had chosen to throw their brother Joseph into a pit of slavery, they did not have their own provisions and rations when famine came. 


== In Rome ==

Rome had a group of a hundred men who were chosen as the ''chiefs of ten''<Ref>
: '''decānus''', decāni, m. decem. 
# "A chief of ten, one set over ten persons (late Lat.). Over soldiers, Veg. Mil. 2, 8." Also, 
# Over monks, a dean, Hier. Ep. 22, no. 35.
# The chief of the corpse-bearers, Cod. Just. 1, 2, 4; 9.
# As a judge, Vulg. Exod. 18, 21; Deut. 1, 15.
# A kind of officer at the imperial court, Cod. 12, 27, 1.
* The Latin Lexicon ''Numen''  from An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis and A Latin Dictionary by Lewis & Short.</Ref> who in the early days were about a hundred and were called the [[Senate]]. Without any legislative power to make law, they needed a tribunal to create the foundation of a legal society. They also had the [[Decemviri]], ten men, whose number was eventually increased to sixty.<Ref>a college of ten men who were the composers of the Twelve Tables and a tribunal for deciding causes involving liberty or citizenship whose number in the time of the emperors was increased to sixty. The Latin Lexicon ''Numen''  from An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis and A Latin Dictionary by Lewis & Short.</Ref>

== The seventy of today ==

When Jesus appointed His Sanhedrin He had a mission in mind.<Ref name="Sanhedrin">
[[Luke 10]]:1  After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come... 17  And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.</Ref>

* [[Luke 10]]:19  "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20  Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. 21  In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight."

In verse 19 we see Jesus, who was the Christ and King of Judea appoint power<Ref name="exousia">{{1849}}</Ref> to these seventy men chosen by Him. That word is the same word we see in [[Romans 13]] that many [[Modern Christians]] want to tell us means "government" or the "authority of government". Of course Jesus does not operate a government like the rulers [[gentiles]] who [[exercise authority]] one over the other.

The were also given "over all the power of the enemy" but a different word is used in this phrase. The word power here is the word ''dunamis''<Ref name="dunamis">{{1411}}</Ref> which included power over the ''hostile "echthros"''.<Ref name="echthros">{{2190}}</Ref> 

: Where are the seventy today? 
: Are they in your congresses and parliaments?
: Who will walk in [[The Way]] of Christ?
: What is hid "from the wise(experts) and prudent(intelligent)"?
: Have we gone after the [[Cain]]s, [[Nimrod]]s and [[Caesar]]s of the [[world]]?
: Have we gone the way of [[Balaam]]?
: Did we follow the way of the [[Nicolaitan]]?
: Have you [[2_Peter#Despise_not_Dominion|despised dominion]]?

Many are willing to sell their neighbor and even their neighbors' [[curse children|children]] into bondage to obtain government [[benefits]].  When hard times come upon them they give up their God-given rights, and go into bondage, becoming entangled in the [[elements]] of the [[world]],<Ref>[[Galatians 4]]:3 “Even so we, when we were children, were in [[bondage]] under the [[elements]] of the world: ... Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly [[elements]], whereunto ye desire again to be in [[bondage]]?”</Ref>  making [[social contract|covenants]] with men<Ref>Exodus 23:32 “Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.”</Ref> who called themselves [[benefactors]], but exercised authority one over the other.<Ref>Matthew 20:25 “But Jesus called them unto him, and said, 'Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you...'”
: Mark 10:42 .... “Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you....”
: Luke 22:25 “And he said unto them, 'The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But it shall not be so among you...'”</Ref>

* [[Exodus 18]]:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [such] over them, [to be] rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:"

The word "ruler" is said to be from ShemReish<Ref>{{08269}}</Ref>.  There is another word ShemReishReish which is the verb for "rule" as in ''rule over us''.<Ref>{{08323}}</Ref> but in this verse what is actually written is ShemReishYod. And while we see the terms "over us" it is not the typical AyinLamed but here we see ‘ă-lê-hem, עֲלֵהֶ֗ם AyinLamedHeyMem. 

These additional letters of HeyMem accompany the words "and place" which is normally ShimVavMem  שִׂ֣ים which can mean ''put, place or set'' but here we see wə-śam-tā וְשַׂמְתָּ֣ which is VavShimChetTav. 

Even the word "a thousand" which is said to be AlefLamedPie אֲלָפִ but in this context it is written אֲלָפִים֙ which is AlefLamedPieYodMem. Together they would appear as וְשַׂמְתָּ֣עֲלֵהֶ֗םשָׂרֵ֤יאֲלָפִים֙. The addition of extra letters like [[Tav]] [[Yod]] and [[Mem]] are expressing and including different ideas concerning these words.

God has never wanted men to rule over one another. Because these individuals are "men of truth, hating covetousness" they would have nothing to do with nor lead the people into the error of [[Balaam]] or the stumblingblock of the [[Nicolaitan]]s.

The term "pentecontarch" in ancient History was a person in charge of a fifty-oared ship; the commander of a penteconter. The term is used in the [[Septuagint]]  from πεντήκοντα fifty + -αρχος<Ref>{{758}}</Ref> But again these men who led fifty were not rulers exercising authority one over the other. The same is true of those who served a hundred (hecatontarch) and a thousand (chiliarch). Christ made this clear in his instructions to his apostles.

Christ was preaching and appointed a kingdom which created a vast charitable [[network]] in the pattern of [[Tens]].

Isolated congregations are not the kingdom. Ministers who [[covet]] their congregation, not networking with all other seekers of the [[kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]] fail to adhere to [[The Way]] of the Messiah. Christ '''[[commanded]]''' that his disciples follow this pattern of '''[[tens]]''' in organizing the people not so that men could [[exercise authority]] one over the other but so that the flow of righteous benefits like bread and welfare to those in true need could be properly done.

The seventy will appear like the loaves and fishes when we sit down in companies of tens, in ranks of fifty, in ranks of one hundred as Christ [[commanded]]. '''([[Mark 6]])'''