:TEXT: "the Lord appointed seventy-two others" : p45 p75 B D 0181 most lat vg one cop(north) cop(south) : ASVn RSVn NASVn NIV NEB TEV RANK: CNOTES: "the Lord appointed seventy others" : S A C K L W X Delta Theta Xi Pi Psi f1 f13 28 33 565 700 892 1010 1241 Byz Lect ("other disciples") three lat syr(c,p,h,pal) most cop(north) : KJV ASV RSV NASV NIVn NEBn TEVnCOMMENTS: The number "two" is in brackets in the UBS text. The number seventy is quite common in the Old Testament, while the number seventy-two occurs only once (in Numbers 31:38; "seventy-two cattle"). It is likely therefore that copyists omitted "two" to make the number a more common one. See Luke 10:1.