Mark 6:1-30 | Matthew 13:54-58, 9:35-11:1, 14:1-12 | Luke 9:1-10

Jesus calls together His 12 disciples, and gives them instructions for going out in pairs to preach about the coming of God’s kingdom, and He gives them power over demons, and power to do miracles.

While this is going on we read a side story of the death of John the Baptist, who Herod has beheaded, and who is afraid that Jesus might be John raised from the dead.

The Lord’s disciples return with reports of all they had done, and Jesus gets word that John the Baptist had been killed.