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And they began laughing at Him. But putting them all out, He *took along the child's father and mother and His own companions, and *entered the room where the child was.

And Jesus went out from there and *came into His hometown; and His disciples *followed Him.

And when the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and many listeners were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to this man, and such miracles as these performed by His hands?

Is this man not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us?" And they were taking offense at Him.

And Jesus was saying to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household."

And He could do no miracle there except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

And King Herod heard it, for His name had become well known; and people were saying, "John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are at work in Him."

For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her.

And a strategic day came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his great men and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee;

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

And although the king was very sorry, yet because of his oaths and because of his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her.

And immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded him to bring back his head. And he went and beheaded him in the prison,

and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

And when his disciples heard this, they came and took away his body and laid it in a tomb.

And when it was already quite late, His disciples came to Him and began saying, "This place is desolate and it is already quite late;

And immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side to Bethsaida, while He Himself was sending the crowd away.

And wherever He was entering villages, or cities, or countryside, they were laying the sick in the marketplaces, and pleading with Him that they might just touch the fringe of His garment; and as many as touched it were being saved from their sicknesses.

and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with defiled hands, that is, unwashed.

but you say, ‘If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever you might benefit from me is Corban (that is to say, given to God),'

you no longer leave him to do anything for his father or his mother;