7. He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
8. He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,
9. but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
10. He said to them, “Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there.
11. Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”
12. They went out and preached that people should repent.
13. They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them.
14. King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, “Yochanan the Immerser has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”
15. But others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets.”
16. But Herod, when he heard this, said, “This is Yochanan, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead.”
17. For Herod himself had sent out and arrested Yochanan, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.