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Whatever house you enter, stay there and go out from there.
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Wherever they don't welcome you, shake the dust from your feet when you leave that town as a warning to them."
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They set out and went through village after village, healing and announcing the Good News everywhere.
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Herod the governor heard about all that was going on and was perplexed, because it was said by some that Yochanan had been raised from the dead,
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by others that Eliyahu had appeared, and by others that one of the prophets of long ago had come back to life.
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Herod said, "I had Yochanan beheaded, so who is this about whom I keep hearing such things?" And he began trying to see him.
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On their return, the emissaries detailed to Yeshua what they had done. Then, taking them with him, he withdrew by himself to a town called Beit-Tzaidah.
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But the crowds found out and followed him. Welcoming them, he went on to speak to them about the Kingdom of God and to heal those who needed to be healed.
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The day began to draw to a close. The Twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away, so that they can go and get lodging and food in the towns and farms around here, because where we are is a remote place."
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But he said to them, "Give them something to eat, yourselves!" They said, "We have no more than five loaves of bread and two fish -- unless we ourselves are supposed to go and buy food for all these people!"
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(For there were about five thousand men.) He said to his talmidim, "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each."