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Calling together the Twelve, Yeshua gave them power and authority to expel all the demons and to cure diseases;
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and he sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal.
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He said to them, "Take nothing for your trip -- neither a walking stick nor a pack, neither bread nor money; and don't have two shirts.
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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.