V.1-16 This time, He sends out seventy. We don’t get this in Matthew. Luke’s gospel is more to the whole human race.
The cities that reject those messengers are terribly guilty, for verse 16 tells us that it is truly the Lord Himself that they are rejecting. There is still that same rejection. It is a serious thing in the sight of God, to refuse a word of warning or of invitation.
V.20 There are many honored names on the earth, but they will all fade away. Let us thank God that our name, who have received the Lord Jesus, is written in heaven.