Mark 6:6-13

6Jesus was very surprised because the people there would not believe in him. Then he went to visit the other villages that were near there. He was teaching the people who lived in those villages.

7Jesus asked his 12 apostles to come to him. He started to send them out to tell God's message to people. He sent them out two by two and he gave them authority over bad spirits.

8Jesus told the disciples, ‘Only take a stick for the journey, nothing else. Do not take any bread or a bag. Do not take any money in your pockets.

9Wear shoes but do not take extra clothes.

10In each town, stay at the first house that you go into. Continue to stay there until you leave that town.

11Perhaps you might go to a town where the people do not accept you. They will not listen to you. So you should leave that town. Clean that town's dirt off your feet. Then it will be clear that they have done something wrong.’

12So the 12 apostles went out. They told people that they must change the way that they live. They must stop doing wrong things.

13The disciples caused many bad spirits to come out of people. They also put olive oil on many sick people, and the sick people became well.