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and sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
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And he said to them, Take nothing for the way, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; nor to have two body-coats apiece.
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And into whatsoever house ye enter, there abide and thence go forth.
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And as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a witness against them.
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And going forth they passed through the villages, announcing the glad tidings and healing everywhere.
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And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things which were done [by him], and was in perplexity, because it was said by some that John was risen from among [the] dead,
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and by some that Elias had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.
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And Herod said, John *I* have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things? and he sought to see him.
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And the apostles having returned related to him whatever they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart into [a desert place of] a city called Bethsaida.
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But the crowds knowing [it] followed him; and he received them and spake to them of the kingdom of God, and cured those that had need of healing.
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But the day began to decline, and the twelve came and said to him, Send away the crowd that they may go into the villages around, and [into] the fields, and lodge and find victuals, for here we are in a desert place.