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So the king immediately sent a soldier from his personal guard with orders to bring Yochanan's head. The soldier went and beheaded Yochanan in the prison,

There were so many people coming and going that they couldn't even take time to eat, so he said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a place where we can be alone, and you can get some rest."

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

He saw that they were having difficulty rowing, because the wind was against them; so at around four o'clock in the morning he came toward them, walking on the lake! He meant to come alongside them;

He replied to them, "So you too are without understanding? Don't you see that nothing going into a person from outside can make him unclean?

So when Yeshua said to them, "Watch out! Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P'rushim and the hametz of Herod,"

Then he put his hands on the blind man's eyes again. He peered intently, and his eyesight was restored, so that he could see everything distinctly.

(He didn't know what to say, they were so frightened.)

So they kept the matter to themselves; but they continued asking each other, "What is this ‘rising from the dead'?"

Shrieking and throwing the boy into a violent fit, it came out. The boy lay there like a corpse, so that most of the people said he was dead.

Salt is excellent, but if it loses its saltiness, how will you season it? So have salt in yourselves — that is, be at peace with each other."

So then, no one should break apart what God has joined together."

People were bringing children to him so that he might touch them, but the talmidim rebuked those people.

They were on the road going up to Yerushalayim. Yeshua was walking ahead of them, and they were amazed — and those following were afraid. So again taking the Twelve along with him, he began telling them what was about to happen to him.

And when you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him; so that your Father in heaven may also forgive your offenses."

So they answered Yeshua, "We don't know." "Then," he replied, "I won't tell you by what s'mikhah I do these things."

So he sent another servant; this one they punched in the head and insulted.

He sent another one, and him they killed; and so with many others — some they beat up, others they killed.

So they seized him, killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

They set about to arrest him, for they recognized that he had told the parable with reference to themselves. But they were afraid of the crowd, so they left him and went away.