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Isn't he the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters living here?" And so they rejected him.
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Jesus said to them, "Prophets are respected everywhere except in their own hometown and by their relatives and their family." 1
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He was not able to perform any miracles there, except that he placed his hands on a few sick people and healed them.
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He was greatly surprised, because the people did not have faith. Then Jesus went to the villages around there, teaching the people.
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He called the twelve disciples together and sent them out two by two. He gave them authority over the evil spirits
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and ordered them, "Don't take anything with you on the trip except a walking stick - no bread, no beggar's bag, no money in your pockets.