Mark 6:1-18 ▼

1 And He came out thence and comes into His own country; and His disciples follow Him:

2 and it being the Sabbath day, He began to preach in the synagogue: and many hearing were astonished, saying, Whence are these things to this one? and, What wisdom is given unto Him? Such miracles are wrought by His hands.

3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary? the brother of James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? Are not His sisters here with us? And they were offended in Him.

4 And Jesus said to them; A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and among his relatives, and in his own house.

5 And He was not able to do any miracle there, except laying hands on a few sick people, He healed them.

6 And He was astonished on account of their unbelief. And He went about the villages in a circuit teaching.

7 And He calls the twelve to Him, and began to send them out two by two; and He gave them authority over unclean spirits.

8 And He commanded them that they should take nothing for the way except staff only; no valise, no bread, no money in the girdle;

9 but having put on your sandals: and put not on two coats.

10 And He said to them, Into whatsoever house you may enter, there abide until you may go out from thence.

11 And whatsoever place may not receive you nor hear you, going forth thence, shake off the dust which is beneath your feet for a testimony unto them.

12 And having gone out they preached that they must repent;

13 and they cast out many demons; and anointed many sick with oil, and healed them.

14 And king Herod heard; for His name became known: and said, John the Baptist is risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works are wrought in Him.

15 And others continued to say, That He is Elijah; and others continued to say that He is a prophet, indeed one of the prophets.

16 But Herod hearing said, That, He is John, whom I beheaded; He is risen from the dead.

17 For Herod himself having sent, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip: because he married her.

18 For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have the wife of thy brother.