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And as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a witness against them.
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And going forth they passed through the villages, announcing the glad tidings and healing everywhere.
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And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things which were done [by him], and was in perplexity, because it was said by some that John was risen from among [the] dead,
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and by some that Elias had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.
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And Herod said, John *I* have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things? and he sought to see him.
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And the apostles having returned related to him whatever they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart into [a desert place of] a city called Bethsaida.
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But the crowds knowing [it] followed him; and he received them and spake to them of the kingdom of God, and cured those that had need of healing.
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But the day began to decline, and the twelve came and said to him, Send away the crowd that they may go into the villages around, and [into] the fields, and lodge and find victuals, for here we are in a desert place.
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And he said to them, Give *ye them to eat. And they said, We have not more than five loaves and two fishes, unless *we* should go and buy food for all this people;
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for they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down in companies by fifties.
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And they did so, and made them all sit down.