Luke 9:1-9 ▼

1 Now Jesus called together the twelve [disciples] and gave them [the right to exercise] power and authority over all the demons and to heal diseases.

2 Then He sent them out [on a brief journey] to preach the kingdom of God and to perform healing.

3 And He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey [that might encumber you]—neither a walking stick, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not even have two tunics apiece.

4 Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that city [to go to another].

5 And as for all those who do not welcome you, when you leave that city, shake the dust off your feet [breaking all ties with them] as a testimony against them [that they rejected My message].”

6 So they began going from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing the sick everywhere.

7 Now Herod [Antipas] the tetrarch [who governed a portion of Palestine including Galilee and Perea] heard about all that was being done [by Jesus], and he was thoroughly perplexed, because it was said by some that John [the Baptist whom he had ordered beheaded] had been raised from the dead,

8 and by others that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the [other] prophets of old had been resurrected.

9 Herod said, “I personally had John beheaded. Who is this man about whom I hear such things?” And he kept trying to see Jesus.