Ordination of the Seventy at Magadan

163:0.1A 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.

163:0.2Je­sus 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.