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But Yeshua would not permit it. Instead, he said to him, "Go home to your people, and tell them how much Adonai in his mercy has done for you."

There came to him a synagogue official, Ya'ir by name, who fell at his feet

She had heard about Yeshua, so she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his robe;

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

His talmidim responded, "You see the people pressing in on you; and still you ask, ‘Who touched me?'"

Then Yeshua left and went to his home town, and his talmidim followed him.

Isn't he just the carpenter? the son of Miryam? the brother of Ya‘akov and Yosi and Y'hudah and Shim‘on? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.

But Yeshua said to them. "The only place people don't respect a prophet is in his home town, among his own relatives, and in his own house."

So he could do no miracles there, other than lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

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,

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";

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.

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,

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

Immediately Yeshua had his talmidim get in the boat and go on ahead of him toward the other side of the lake, toward Beit-Tzaidah, while he sent the crowds away.

Wherever he went, in towns, cities or country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the tzitzit on his robe, and all who touched it were healed.

and saw that some of his talmidim ate with ritually unclean hands, that is, without doing n'tilat-yadayim.

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

But you say, ‘If someone says to his father or mother, "I have promised as a korban" ' " (that is, as a gift to God) " ‘ "what I might have used to help you," '