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`No one is able the vessels of the strong man -- having entered into his house -- to spoil, if first he may not bind the strong man, and then his house he will spoil.

Then come do his brethren and mother, and standing without, they sent unto him, calling him,

and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:

and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

who had his dwelling in the tombs, and not even with chains was any one able to bind him,

and lo, there doth come one of the chiefs of the synagogue, by name Jairus, and having seen him, he doth fall at his feet,

having heard about Jesus, having come in the multitude behind, she touched his garment,

for she said -- `If even his garments I may touch, I shall be saved;'

and his disciples said to him, `Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and thou sayest, `Who did touch me!'

And he went forth thence, and came to his own country, and his disciples do follow him,

and sabbath having come, he began in the synagogue to teach, and many hearing were astonished, saying, `Whence hath this one these things? and what the wisdom that was given to him, that also such mighty works through his hands are done?

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?' -- and they were being stumbled at him.

And Jesus said to them -- `A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his kindred, and in his own house;'

And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said -- `John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'

For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee,

and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought,

and he having gone, beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head upon a plate, and did give it to the damsel, and the damsel did give it to her mother;

and having heard, his disciples came and took up his corpse, and laid it in the tomb.

And now the hour being advanced, his disciples having come near to him, say, -- `The place is desolate, and the hour is now advanced,