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Then the right time came for Herodias to cause John's death. It happened on Herod's birthday. Herod gave a dinner party for the most important government leaders, the commanders of his army, and the most important people in Galilee.

Then Jesus left the area around Tyre and went through Sidon. On his way to Lake Galilee he went through the area of the Ten Towns.

Then Jesus and his followers left there and went through Galilee. Jesus did not want the people to know where they were.

But after I am killed, I will rise from death. Then I will go to Galilee. I will be there before you come."

Again Peter said it was not true. A short time later, the people standing there said, "We know you are one of them, because you are from Galilee."

These were the women who had followed Jesus in Galilee and cared for him. Many other women who had come with Jesus to Jerusalem were also there.

Now go and tell his followers. And be sure to tell Peter. Tell them, ‘Jesus is going into Galilee and will be there before you come. You will see him there, as he told you before.'"

During Elizabeth's sixth month of pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to a virgin girl who lived in Nazareth, a town in Galilee. She was engaged to marry a man named Joseph from the family of David. Her name was Mary.

So Joseph left Nazareth, a town in Galilee, and went to the town of Bethlehem in Judea. It was known as the town of David. Joseph went there because he was from the family of David.

Joseph and Mary finished doing all the things that the law of the Lord commanded. Then they went home to Nazareth, their own town in Galilee.

It was the 15th year of the rule of Tiberius Caesar. These men were under Caesar: Pontius Pilate, the governor of Judea; Herod, the ruler of Galilee; Philip, Herod's brother, the ruler of Iturea and Trachonitis; Lysanias, the ruler of Abilene.

Jesus went back to Galilee with the power of the Spirit. Stories about him spread all over the area around Galilee.

Jesus went to Capernaum, a city in Galilee. On the Sabbath day he taught the people.

As Jesus stood beside Lake Galilee, a crowd of people pushed to get closer to him and to hear the teachings of God.

One day Jesus was teaching the people. The Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there too. They had come from every town in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The Lord was giving Jesus the power to heal people.

Jesus and his followers sailed on across the lake. They sailed to the area where the Gerasene people live, across from Galilee.

All those who lived in the area around Gerasa asked Jesus to go away because they were afraid. So Jesus got into the boat to go back to Galilee.

When Jesus went back to Galilee, the people welcomed him. Everyone was waiting for him.

Some people there with Jesus at that time told him about what had happened to some worshipers from Galilee. Pilate had them killed. Their blood was mixed with the blood of the animals they had brought for sacrificing.

Jesus answered, "Do you think this happened to those people because they were more sinful than all other people from Galilee?