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And aren't all his sisters here with us? Where did he get all this?"

And so they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house."

and he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead! And because of this, miraculous powers are at work in him."

For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,

Although it grieved the king, because of his oath and the dinner guests he commanded it to be given.

His head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.

When evening arrived, his disciples came to him saying, "This is an isolated place and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."

Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"

They begged him if they could only touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

For God said, ‘ Honor your father and mother ' and ‘ Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death .'

But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, "Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,"

he does not need to honor his father.' You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.

But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, "Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us."

Then large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

When Jesus came to the area of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"

Then he instructed his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.

From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?