“And if a son of peace is there..”Gospel of Luke questions

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After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.“[…]
When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’
And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you.”
[…] Do not move around from house to house.
  1. Who are the seventy-two? Any names?
  2. Jesus tells them to say “ peace to this house” when entering it. What is this peace ?What does this exactly means? It’s just a saying or they can give the house and the people that live in there peace because of Jesus’s will? And what peace? Peace in family relations, peace in not having illnesses? Also,In church we use expressions like peace to you all, so what is this peace that we are talking about? Is it different from Jesus’s peace ?
    3)The Gospel says that if there will be no sons of peace then the peace will “return” to the disciples. How? What does it means?
    4)Why Jesus tells them not to go from house to house? Aren’t they supposed to evangelize? So they actually should go to every house, why Jesus is telling them not to do it?
Thank you for your answers and sorry if any of the questions might seem dumb.
 
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For others who are looking on, the passage is Luke 10:1-23.

The 72 are not named.

Most likely Jesus spoke the Jewish greeting “Shalom aleichem,” which means something like completeness and harmony in every dimension of life. You suggested good family relations and good health. Add to that a right relationship with God, a good job which does not conflict with family or faith, contentment with one’s material goods, and freedom from fear, and you are getting close to Shalom.

They were supposed to live in one home as their “headquarters” as they spread the good news all over the town or village. They weren’t supposed to move around looking for better accommodations.
 
Some manuscripts say “seventy-two”, while others say “seventy”.

If “seventy”, then it seems a clear allusion to Moses, who chose seventy elders to share in his mission (and who subsequently received the charism of prophecy). See Numbers chapter 11.
 
Adding to the information already given by @Beryllos and others, here is a short excerpt from a commentary on Luke’s gospel by a Protestant theologian, G. B. Caird. I don’t think there is anything here that a Catholic writer would disagree with.

The missionaries are bidden to fulfil their mission with the utmost haste. They are to carry not even the simplest impediments, to avoid the time-consuming futilities of oriental wayside etiquette, to waste no time on the heedless, and to leave behind them any scruples they may have about the ritual cleanness of food, which would certainly hamper their effective progress. Their mission is an urgent one because they are harvesters: Israel is ripe for the sickle and must be gathered into the garner of the kingdom while the brief season lasts.
 
St. Hippolytus names all seventy disciples in one of his works. I cant find a link to it at the moment.
 
and the disciples can give the people of the house this peace because of Jesus right? He’s the one empowering them. Can this be also used as proof for intercession of saints or is it different? Thanks
 
We know Joses Barsabas and Matthias were among the Seventy, as they were with Jesus from “the Baptism of John” but not Apostles.
 
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