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Then summoning the Twelve to Him, He proceeded to send them out by twos, and gave them authority over the foul spirits.
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He charged them to take nothing for the journey except a stick; no bread, no bag, and not a penny in their pockets,
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but to go wearing sandals. "And do not," He said, "put on an extra under garment.
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Wherever you enter a house, make it your home till you leave that place.
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But wherever they will not receive you or listen to you, when you leave shake off the very dust from under your feet to bear witness concerning them."
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So they set out, and preached in order that men might repent.
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Many demons they expelled, and many invalids they anointed with oil and cured.
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King Herod heard of all this (for the name of Jesus had become widely known), and he kept saying, "John the Baptizer has come back to life, and that is why these miraculous Powers are working in him."
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Others asserted that He was Elijah. Others again said, "He is a Prophet, like one of the great Prophets."
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But when Herod heard of Him, he said, "The John, whom I beheaded, has come back to life."
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For Herod himself had sent and had had John arrested and had kept him in prison in chains, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.