The Gospel of the Seventy is a currently lost text from the New Testament apocrypha. The title of the text refers to the number of disciples of Jesus after His resurrection, often thought elsewhere to be 72 (a number reflecting the number of grandchildren of Jacob, sometimes also said to be 70).
The Manicheans appear to have referred to the Gospel of Mani by this title, and as such it may be the same text.
Read article at Wikipedia
Gospel of the Seventy
We can tell you that Gospel of the Seventy is a
If you know more about Gospel of the Seventy, you can add more facts here »
Similar topics in Freebase
-
Gospel of the Hebrews
The Gospel of the Hebrews (see "About titles" below) is a lost gospel preserved only in a few quotations of the Church Fathers. It was written in Aramaic, and was the most widely known of the non canonical gospels. The Gospel of the Hebrews was the gospel in use among Hebrew Christian sects, which... -
Gospel of Judas
The Gospel of Judas is a Gnostic gospel purported to document conversations between the apostle Judas Iscariot and Jesus Christ. The document is not claimed to have been written by Judas himself, but rather by Gnostic followers of Jesus. It exists in an early fourth-century Coptic text, though it...