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Wherever they refuse to receive you, as you leave that town shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."
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So they departed and visited village after village, spreading the Good News and performing cures everywhere.
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Now Herod the Tetrarch heard of all that was going on; and he was bewildered because of its being said by some that John had come back to life,
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by others that Elijah had appeared, and by others that some one of the ancient Prophets had come back to life.
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And Herod said, "John I have beheaded; but who is this, of whom I hear such reports?" And he sought for an opportunity of seeing Jesus.
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The Apostles, on their return, related to Jesus all they had done. Then He took them and withdrew to a quiet retreat, to a town called Bethsaida.
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But the immense crowd, aware of this, followed Him; and receiving them kindly He proceeded to speak to them of the Kingdom of God, and those who needed to be restored to health, He cured.
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Now when the day began to decline, the Twelve came to Him and said, "Send the people away, that they may go to the villages and farms round about and find lodging and a supply of food; because here we are in an uninhabited district."
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"You yourselves," He said, "must give them food." "We have nothing," they replied, "but five loaves and a couple of fish, unless indeed we were to go and buy provisions for all this host of people."
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(For there were about 5,000 adult men.) But He said to His disciples, "Make them sit down in parties of about fifty each."
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They did so, making them all, without exception, sit down.