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and he doth call near the twelve, and he began to send them forth two by two, and he was giving them power over the unclean spirits,
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and he commanded them that they may take nothing for the way, except a staff only -- no scrip, no bread, no brass in the girdle,
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but having been shod with sandals, and ye may not put on two coats.
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And he said to them, `Whenever ye may enter into a house, there remain till ye may depart thence,
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and as many as may not receive you, nor hear you, going out thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony to them; verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in a day of judgment than for that city.'
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And having gone forth they were preaching that [men] might reform,
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and many demons they were casting out, and they were anointing with oil many infirm, and they were healing [them].
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And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said -- `John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'
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Others said -- `It is Elijah,' and others said -- `It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.'
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And Herod having heard, said -- `He whom I did behead -- John -- this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'
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For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,