Mark 6:2-12

2 When the Sabbath came, He began ¹to teach in the synagogue; and the ²many listeners were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands?

3 "Is not this ³the carpenter, ⁴the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not ⁵His sisters here with us?" And they took ⁶offense at Him.

4 Jesus said to them, "⁷A prophet is not without honor except in ⁸his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household."

5 And He could do no * miracle there except that He ⁹laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

6 And He wondered at their unbelief. ¹⁰And He was going around * the villages teaching.

The Twelve Sent Out

7 ¹¹And ¹²He summoned the twelve and began to send them out ¹³in pairs, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits;

8 ¹⁴and He instructed them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a mere staff -no bread, no bag, no money in their belt -

9 but to wear sandals; and He added, "Do not put on two tunics."

10 And He said to them, "Wherever * you enter a house, stay there until you leave town.

11 "Any place that does not receive you or listen to you, as you go out from there, ¹⁵shake the dust off the soles of your feet for a testimony against them."

12 ¹⁶They went out and preached that men should repent.

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 4:23; Mark 10:1
• 2. Matthew 7:28
• 3. Matthew 13:55
• 4. Matthew 12:46
• 5. Matthew 13:56
• 6. Matthew 11:6
• 7. Matthew 13:57; John 4:44
• 8. Mark 6:1
• 9. Mark 5:23
• 10. Matthew 9:35; Mark 1:39; Mark 10:1; Luke 13:22
• 11. Mark 6:7-11: {Matt 10:1, 9-14; Luke 9:1, 3-5;} Luke 10:4-11
• 12. Matthew 10:1, 5; Mark 3:13; Luke 9:1
• 13. Luke 10:1
• 14. Matthew 10:10
• 15. Matthew 10:14; Acts 13:51
• 16. Matthew 11:1; Luke 9:6

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "works of power"
• [b]. Or "Jacob"
• [c]. Or "his own part of the country"
• [d]. Or "work of power"
• [e]. Or "knapsack" or "beggar's bag"
• [f]. Lit "being shod with"
• [g]. Or "inner garments"
• [h]. Lit "go out from there"
• [i]. Lit "under your feet"
• [j]. Or "proclaimed as a herald"