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And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men wondered.

And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue named Jairus: and seeing him, falleth down at his feet.

When she had heard of Jesus, came in the crowd behind him, and touched his garment.

For she said: If I shall touch but his garment, I shall be whole.

And his disciples said to him: Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou who hath touched me?

And going out from thence, he went into his own country; and his disciples followed him.

And when the Sabbath was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were in admiration at his doctrine, saying: How came this man by all these things? and what wisdom is this that is given to him, and such mighty works as are wrought by his hands?

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joseph, and Jude, and Simon? are not also his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in regard of him.

And Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and in his own house, and among his own kindred.

And he could not do any miracles there, only that he cured a few that were sick, laying his hands upon them.

And king Herod heard, (for his name was made manifest,) and he said: John the Baptist is risen again from dead, and therefore mighty works shew forth themselves in him.

For Herod himself had sent and apprehended John, and bound him prison for the sake of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.

And when a convenient day was come, Herod made a supper for his birthday, for the princes, and tribunes, and chief men of Galilee.

And the king was struck sad. Yet because of his oath, and because of them that were with him at table, he would not displease her:

But sending an executioner, he commanded that his head should be brought in a dish.

And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish: and gave to the damsel, and the damsel gave it her mother.

Which his disciples hearing came, and took his body, and laid it in a tomb.

And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past:

And when he had taken the five loaves, and the two fishes: looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave to his disciples to set before them: and the two fishes he divided among them all.

And immediately he obliged his disciples to go up into the ship, that they might go before him over the water to Bethsaida, whilst he dismissed the people.