Mark 6:6-19

And he was amazed  at their unbelief.  He was going around the villages teaching.  He  summoned  the Twelve  and began to send  them out in pairs and gave them authority over unclean  spirits.  He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a staff — no bread, no traveling bag,  no money in their belts, but to wear sandals and not put on an extra shirt.  He said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that place. If 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.”   So they went out and preached  that people should repent.  They drove out many demons,  anointed  many sick  people with oil  and healed them.  King  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.” But others said, “He’s Elijah.”  Still others said, “He’s a prophet, like one of the prophets from long ago.”  When Herod  heard of it, he said, “John,  the one I beheaded, has been raised! ”  For  Herod himself had given orders to arrest John and to chain  him in prison on account of Herodias,  his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her.  John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful  for you to have your brother’s wife.”  So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill  him. But she could not,