Mark 6:3-21

³Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Miriam and brother of Jacob, Yosi, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they were offended at him.

⁴Yeshua said to them, “A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country, and amongst his own relatives, and in his own house.”

⁵He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.

⁶He marvelled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.

⁷He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

⁸He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,

⁹but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.

¹⁰He said to them, “Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there.

¹¹Whoever 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 judgement than for that city!”

¹²They went out and preached that people should repent.

¹³They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick and healed them.

¹⁴King 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.”

¹⁵But others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets.”

¹⁶But Herod, when he heard this, said, “This is Yochanan, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead.”

¹⁷For 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.

¹⁸For Yochanan had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

¹⁹Herodias set herself against him and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,

²⁰for Herod feared Yochanan, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

²¹Then a convenient day came when Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.