Mark 6:5-15

5He was not able to do a miracle there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.

6And he was amazed at their unbelief. He was going around the villages teaching.

7He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs and gave them authority over unclean spirits.

8He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a staff — no bread, no traveling bag, no money in their belts,

9but to wear sandals and not put on an extra shirt.

10He said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that place.

11If any place does not welcome you or listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

12So they went out and preached that people should repent.

13They drove out many demons, anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.

14King Herod heard about it, because Jesus’s name had become well known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that’s why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

15But others said, “He’s Elijah.” Still others said, “He’s a prophet, like one of the prophets from long ago.”