1. He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.
2. He sent them out to proclaim God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.
3. He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey—no staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money. Don’t have two coats each.
4. Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.
5. As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”
6. They departed and went throughout the villages, proclaiming the Good News and healing everywhere.
7. Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that Yochanan had risen from the dead,
8. and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.
9. Herod said, “Yochanan I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him.
10. The emissaries, when they had returned, told him what things they had done.He took them and withdrew apart to a desert region of a city called Bethsaida.