Mark 6:4-14

⁴Jesus 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, “John the Baptiser has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”