Luke 9

Jesus sends out the Twelve

1 Then He called the Twelve together and gave them power and authority over all the demons,*"Over all the demons"—evidently, during their tour no demon resisted them, which contrasts with Luke 9:40. and to cure diseases; 2 and He sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick. 3 And He said to them: "Take nothing for the journey—neither staffs*Perhaps 15% of the Greek manuscripts have ‘staffs’ as singular, to be followed by most modern versions. In Matthew 10:10 it is 5%. But to put the singular here and in Matthew contradicts Mark 6:8, where all texts have "only a staff". In Luke and Matthew the vast majority of the Greek manuscripts read "neither staffs", which does not contradict Mark—the case of the staffs is analogous to that of the tunics; they were to take only one, not several. nor knapsack nor bread nor money, neither have two tunics apiece. 4 Whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there. 5 But as many as do not receive you, when you depart from that town, shake off even the dust from your feet as a testimony against them." 6 So they set out and went around, village by village, evangelizing and healing everywhere.