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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.