Gospel of The Seventy

The Gospel of the Seventy is a currently lost text from the New Testament apocrypha. The title of the text refers to the number of disciples sent by Jesus to preach, in Luke's Gospel. See Seventy Disciples, quoted in some manuscrpits as 72.

The Manicheans appear to have referred to the Gospel of Mani by this title, and as such it may be the same text.


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