Mark 6:1-18 ▼

1 Leaving that place He came into His own country, accompanied by His disciples.

2 On the Sabbath He proceeded to teach in the synagogue; and many, as they heard Him, were astonished. "Where did he acquire all this?" they asked. "What is this wisdom that has been given to him? And what are these marvellous miracles which his hands perform?

3 Is not this the carpenter, Mary's son, the brother of James and Joses, Jude and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?" So they turned angrily away.

4 But Jesus said to them, "There is no Prophet without honour except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own home."

5 And He could not do any miracle there, except that He laid His hands on a few who were out of health and cured them; and

6 He wondered at their unbelief. So He went round the adjacent villages, teaching.

7 Then summoning the Twelve to Him, He proceeded to send them out by twos, and gave them authority over the foul spirits.

8 He charged them to take nothing for the journey except a stick; no bread, no bag, and not a penny in their pockets,

9 but to go wearing sandals. "And do not," He said, "put on an extra under garment.

10 Wherever you enter a house, make it your home till you leave that place.

11 But wherever they will not receive you or listen to you, when you leave shake off the very dust from under your feet to bear witness concerning them."

12 So they set out, and preached in order that men might repent.

13 Many demons they expelled, and many invalids they anointed with oil and cured.

14 King Herod heard of all this (for the name of Jesus had become widely known)

15 Others asserted that He was Elijah. Others again said, "He is a Prophet, like one of the great Prophets."

16 But when Herod heard of Him, he said, "The John, whom I beheaded, has come back to life."

17 For Herod himself had sent and had had John arrested and had kept him in prison in chains, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.

18 For John had repeatedly told Herod, "You have no right to be living with your brother's wife."