Matthew 10 and Luke 10 are joined in the same yoke. They may well refer to the same incident in which our Lord sent the disciples out to practice preaching while He was still with them. The main difference is that Matthew says the Lord sent out the 12 apostles and Luke says He sent out seventy. Same event? There’s no way to know. The similarities are many, although Matthew devotes the entire chapter to the instruction Jesus gave them, for which we can be eternally grateful.
Luke, while abbreviating the instructions, does something Matthew does not do: He tells what happened on their return. That is Luke 10:17-24.
Now, pastors in particular should find the following helpful…
The first 15 verses of Matthew 10 do not apply to us today. After naming the twelve apostles, our Lord gives them specific instructions on what to do on this mission. Those instructions were for them, not for us.
–To repeat, the first 15 verses of Matthew 10 were directed only to the original twelve apostles about to go on a preaching mission.