Study Desk

Among them was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years

for she said, "If I touch even his clothes, I will be healed."

He instructed them, "Take nothing for your trip except a walking stick — no bread, no pack, no money in your belt.

Meanwhile, King Herod heard about this, for Yeshua's reputation had spread. Some were saying, "Yochanan the Immerser has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him."

For Herod had sent and had Yochanan arrested and chained in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip. Herod had married her,

but Yochanan had told him, "It violates the Torah for you to marry your brother's wife."

because Herod stood in awe of Yochanan and protected him, for he knew that he was a tzaddik, a holy man. Whenever he heard him, he became deeply disturbed; yet he liked to listen to him.

Finally, the opportunity came. Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his nobles and officers and the leading men of the Galil.

The daughter of Herodias came in and danced, and she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, "Ask me for whatever you want; I will give it to you";

So she went out and said to her mother, "What should I ask for?" She said, "The head of Yochanan the Immerser."

Herod was appalled; but out of regard for the oaths he had sworn before his dinner guests, he did not want to break his word to her.

When Yeshua came ashore, he saw a huge crowd. Filled with compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, he began teaching them many things.

Send the people away, so that they can go and buy food for themselves in the farms and towns around here."

for they had all seen him and were terrified. However, he spoke to them. "Courage," he said, "it is I. Stop being afraid!"

for they did not understand about the loaves; on the contrary, their hearts had been made stone-like.

(For the P'rushim, and indeed all the Judeans, holding fast to the Tradition of the Elders, do not eat unless they have given their hands a ceremonial washing.

For Moshe said, ‘ Honor your father and your mother, ' and ‘ Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death. '

then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and it passes out into the latrine." (Thus he declared all foods ritually clean.)

For from within, out of a person's heart, come forth wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,