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For when Hero'di-as' daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the king said to the girl, "Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will grant it."

And the king was exceedingly sorry; but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.

And immediately the king sent a soldier of the guard and gave orders to bring his head. 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.

When his disciples heard of it, they came and took his body, and laid it in a tomb.

And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is a lonely place, and the hour is now late;

Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Beth-sa'ida, while he dismissed the crowd.

And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or country, they laid the sick in the market places, and besought him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched it were made well.

they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed.

but you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God) --

then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,

And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.

since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

But immediately a woman, whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell down at his feet.

And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and they besought him to lay his hand upon him.

And taking him aside from the multitude privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue;

And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him, and said to them,

And his disciples answered him, "How can one feed these men with bread here in the desert?"

And he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground; and he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and they set them before the crowd.