Gospel of the Seventy

The Gospel of the Seventy is a lost text from the New Testament apocrypha. The title of the text refers to the number of disciples sent by Jesus to preach in Luke's Gospel (quoted in some manuscripts as 72).{{cn|date=February 2024}}

The only surviving reference to the text is in the writings of al-Biruni.{{cite book |last1=Schneemelcher |first1=Wilhelm |last2=Wilson |first2=Robert McLachlan |title=New Testament Apocrypha |date=28 July 2005 |publisher=Westminster John Knox Press |isbn=978-0-664-22721-0 |page=380 |language=en}}

The Manicheans appear to have referred to the Gospel of Mani by this title, and as such it may be the same text.{{cn|date=February 2024}}

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