Luke 10 Luke 10 Luke 10 is the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the sending of seventy disciples by Jesus, the famous parable about the Good Samaritan, and his visit to the house of Mary and Martha. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as Acts. The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows (with cross references to parallel sections in the other gospels): Theologian Heinrich Meyer calls this section the "Narrative of the Seventy"
Allegory in the Middle Ages it is usually an allegory for the burial and resurrection of Christ. Another common typological allegory is with the four major Old testament prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. These four prophets prefigure the four Apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. There was no end to the number of analogies that commentators could find between stories of the Old Testament and the New. There also existed a tradition in the Middle Ages of "mythography"—the allegorical interpretation of pagan myths. Virgil's "Aeneid" and Ovid's "Metamorphoses" were standard textbooks throughout the Middle Ages, and each had a long tradition of allegorical interpretation.