Jesus sent out these twelve, instructing them as follows: "Do not go to Gentile regions and do not enter any Samaritan town.

He said to them, "Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?"

No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.