1. There is a lot of beautiful counsel in these verses to the seventy. One of the most troubling is when he tells them they are going forth "as lambs among wolves". He advises them to bring nothing along and multiple times refers to trusting in the spirit and making decisions based on what they perceive and feel is correct. There are many words of counsel advising them to help heal the sick and eat what is placed before them. It seems that he is advising them to be grateful for the goodness that is placed before them and quickly turn away from those acts of feelings that are bad. He blesses them with the "power to tread on serpents".
2. These scriptures show that just as we do today, the Lord established more than just the 12 apostles, but established a quorum of 70 men, who held some sort of priesthood power or were at least baptized because they were able to "heal the sick" and be inspired by the spirit. The Lord also sent out missionaries two by two and had them work, eat, and live alongside the people they were teaching. He had them leave their lives behind and sacrifice their time, and in some instances I'm sure even their lives in order to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
3. The most obvious example of proving the Lord had a quorum of the Seventy is in Luke 10:1 when he says that he called the 70.
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