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He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his talmidim followed him.
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When the Shabbat had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?
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Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Miryam, and brother of Ya`akov, Yosi, Yehudah, and Shim`on? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended by him.
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Yeshua said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house."
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He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick folk, and healed them.
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He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.
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He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
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He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,
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but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
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He said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there.
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Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sedom and `Amorah in the day of judgment than for that city!"