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