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39 lines
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title = "Luke 9:1–9"
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date = "2022-11-28"
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### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk9.1-9)
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Jesus calls the Twelve together and sends them out to preach His message to the
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villages throughout the area. While they are doing that, He gives them
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authority to cast out demons and heal diseases. These signs are there to prove
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to the people that these men are teaching the true things of God. They are also
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to take no provisions for their travels, but to rely on the hospitality of
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those who hear them. This way, they will rely on God instead of their own
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might, thus proving to themselves that they are doing God's work.
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The disciples were instructed to not wear out their welcome by staying in many
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different houses in a village, but keep to just one before moving on. This
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helps ensure that they will reach as many different villages and towns as
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possible. However, if no one accepts their message, they are to leave
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immediately, shaking the dust off their feet as they go. This is a symbolic act
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that the Pharisees would do as they left Gentile lands to return home, removing
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any possible defilement they may have picked up during their travels. For the
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disciples to do this in Jewish towns would be to say that those towns were not
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truly part of God's people.
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Around this time, the report of Jesus has reached Herod the tetrarch. He was
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the Roman governor over Galilee, the region Jesus has spent most of His time
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ministering so far. However, he was getting a garbled report because some
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people thought that Jesus was John the Baptist raised from the dead, or Elijah.
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Herod didn't believe in a resurrection, it seems, but he did want to know who
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could cause such reports as this. This may be a strange place to put this
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detail for Luke to put in his narrative, but it is a point that will come up
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again much later in the book.
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* * *
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Help us to preach Your word to the world, standing firm on the truth even when
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no one wants to hear it.
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