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(A) If people won't welcome you, leave the town and shake the dust from your feet[a] as a warning to them.”

The apostles left and went from village to village, telling the good news and healing people everywhere.

Herod Is Worried

(Matthew 14.1-12; Mark 6.14-29)

(B) Herod[b] the ruler heard about all that was happening, and he was worried. Some people were saying John the Baptist had come back to life.

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Footnotes

  1. 9.5 shake the dust from your feet: This was a way of showing rejection.
  2. 9.7 Herod: Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great.

If people do not welcome you, leave their town and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”(A) So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere.

Now Herod(B) the tetrarch heard about all that was going on. And he was perplexed because some were saying that John(C) had been raised from the dead,(D)

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