10 And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.
The first commission (The great commission before the great
commission).
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Called
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John Chrysostom
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“He makes the exercises even more serious than
the actual conflicts.”
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Authority given
o
John Chrysostom
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“And for the present He makes them physicians
of bodies, dispensing to them afterwards the cure of the soul.”
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For what says He? The harvest truly is
plenteous, but the laborers are few.
