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and he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him."

For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,

And the king was sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given.

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

And his disciples came and took the body and buried it, and they went and told Jesus.

Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?"

and implored him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.

But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, "What you would have gained from me is given to God,"

he need not honor his father.' So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.

But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away, for she is crying out after us."

And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them,

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."

Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"

From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

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

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.

Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."

And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.