1. And He went away from there and came to His own country, and His taught ones followed Him.
2. And Sabbath having come, He began to teach in the congregation. And many who heard Him were astonished, saying, “Where did He get all this? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such miracles are done through His hands?
3. “Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Miryam, and brother of Ya‛aqoḇ, and Yosĕph, and Yehuḏah, and Shim‛on? And are not His sisters here with us?” And they stumbled in Him.
4. And יהושע said to them, “A prophet is not unappreciated except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”
5. And He was unable to do any miracle there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick ones and healed them.
6. And He marvelled because of their unbelief. And He was going around among the villages, teaching.
7. And He called the twelve near, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over unclean spirits.
8. And He instructed them to take none at all for the journey except a staff – no bag, no bread, no copper in their money belts,
9. but to wear sandals, and not to wear two undergarments.
10. And He said to them, “Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you leave that place.
11. “And any place that does not receive you or listen to you, when you leave there, shake off the dust under your feet as a witness against them. Truly, I say to you, it shall be more bearable for Seḏom and Amorah in the day of judgment than for that city!”
12. And they went out and proclaimed that men should repent.
13. And they were casting out many demons, and they were anointing with oil many who were sick, and they were healing them.
14. And Sovereign Herodes heard, for His Name had become well-known. And he said, “Yoḥanan the Immerser has been raised from the dead, and because of this these powers are at work in him.”
15. Others said, “He is Ěliyahu.” And others said, “He is a prophet – like one of the prophets.”
16. But when Herodes heard, he said, “This one is Yoḥanan whom I beheaded, he has been raised from the dead!”
17. For Herodes himself had sent and seized Yoḥanan, and bound him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her,