Luke 10:3 Meaning and Explanation
“Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Jesus sends the seventy out defenceless, like lambs walking into wolf country.
What Does Luke 10:3 Mean?
There is no disguising the danger. Jesus does not promise his messengers a friendly reception; he names the hostility in advance. They go unarmed and unprotected, carrying nothing but a message of peace into places that may receive them as prey.
Yet the image holds a quiet strength. Lambs survive not by fighting wolves but by belonging to a shepherd, and these messengers travel under the eye of the one who sends them. The defencelessness is the point: the kingdom does not advance by force but by witness, and the weakness of the messenger leaves room for the power of God to be seen. Christ himself would soon go as a lamb among wolves, and prevail.
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What does Luke 10:3 mean?
Jesus sends the seventy out defenceless, like lambs walking into wolf country.