 And so now, now in response to the unfavorable reception that Jesus received in Nazareth, we are told in chapter 6, verses 7 through 13, the part immediately preceding our reading today, that Jesus began to go preach in the other villages in Galilee. And since in the enormity of the task and the amount of people who needed to hear the good news, Jesus sends out his 12 disciples to do preaching for him.