2When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?
3Isn`t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren`t his sisters here with us?" They were offended by him.
4Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house."
5He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick folk, and healed them.
6He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.
7He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
8He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,
