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And when he saw Jesus in the distance, he ran and threw himself at His feet,

when there came one of the Wardens of the Synagogue--he was called Jair--who, on beholding Him, threw himself at His feet,

heard of Jesus. And she came in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak;

for she said, "If I but touch His clothes, I shall be cured."

"You see the multitude pressing you on all sides," His disciples exclaimed, "and yet you ask, `Who touched me?'"

until the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and threw herself at His feet, and told Him all the truth.

Leaving that place He came into His own country, accompanied by His disciples.

On the Sabbath He proceeded to teach in the synagogue; and many, as they heard Him, were astonished. "Where did he acquire all this?" they asked. "What is this wisdom that has been given to him? And what are these marvellous miracles which his hands perform?

Is not this the carpenter, Mary's son, the brother of James and Joses, Jude and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?" So they turned angrily away.

But Jesus said to them, "There is no Prophet without honour except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own home."

And He could not do any miracle there, except that He laid His hands on a few who were out of health and cured them; and

For Herod himself had sent and had had John arrested and had kept him in prison in chains, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.

Therefore Herodias hated him and wished to take his life, but could not;

At length Herodias found her opportunity. Herod on his birthday gave a banquet to the nobles of his court and to the tribunes and the principal people in Galilee,

at which Herodias's own daughter came in and danced, and so charmed Herod and his guests that he said to her, "Ask me for anything you please, and I will give it to you."

Then the King, though intensely sorry, yet for the sake of his oaths, and of his guests, would not break faith with her.

He at once sent a soldier of his guard with orders to bring John's head. So he went and beheaded him in the prison,

and brought his head on a dish and gave it to the young girl, who gave it to her mother.

When John's disciples heard of it, they came and took away his body and laid it in a tomb.

So when Jesus landed, He saw a vast multitude; and His heart was moved with pity for them, because they were like sheep which have no shepherd, and He proceeded to teach them many things.