¹² And so His disciples went out into the countryside, preaching the changed life^[a] as Jesus had taught them, ¹³ casting out unclean spirits and anointing the sick with oil to heal them.

¹⁴ Jesus had become so well known that King Herod received reports of all that Jesus was doing. Some were saying^[b] that John the Baptist^[c] had been raised from the dead and that these mighty works were the fruits of his resurrection.