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863  l   Mark 6:25
35   While ­Jesus was ­still speak­ing, some
peo­ple came from the h
­ ouse of Ja­i­rus,
the syn­a­gogue lead­er. “Your daugh­ter is
dead,” they said. “Why both­er the teach­er
any­more?”
36   Over­hear­ing  a what they said, ­Jesus
told him, “Don’t be ­afraid; just be­lieve.”
37 He did not let any­one fol­low him ex­
cept Pe­ter, ­James and John the broth­er of
­James. 38 When they came to the home of
the syn­a­gogue lead­er, ­Jesus saw a com­mo­
tion, with peo­ple cry­ing and wail­ing loud­
ly. 39 He went in and said to them, “Why all
this com­mo­tion and wail­ing? The ­child is
not dead but a
­ sleep.” 40 But they l ­ aughed
at him.
Af­ter he put them all out, he took the
child’s fa­ther and moth­er and the dis­ci­ples
who were with him, and went in w
­ here the
­child was. 41 He took her by the hand and
said to her, “Tal­i­tha koum!” (which ­means
“Lit­tle girl, I say to you, get up!”). 42 Im­
me­di­ate­ly the girl ­stood up and be­gan to
walk ­around (she was ­twelve ­years old). At
this they were com­plete­ly as­ton­ished. 43 He
gave s ­ trict or­ders not to let any­one know
about this, and told them to give her some­
thing to eat.
A Prophet Without Honor
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­ esus left ­there and went to his home­
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town, ac­com­pa­nied by his dis­ci­ples.
2 When the Sab­bath came, he be­gan to
teach in the syn­a­gogue, and many who
heard him were amazed.
“Where did this man get ­these ­things?”
they a
­ sked. “What’s this wis­dom that has
been giv­en him? What are t ­ hese re­mark­
able mir­a­cles he is per­form­ing? 3 Isn’t this
the car­pen­ter? ­Isn’t this ­Mary’s son and the
broth­er of ­James, Jo­seph,  b Ju­das and Si­
mon? ­Aren’t his sis­ters here with us?” And
they took of­fense at him.
4 ­Jesus said to them, “A proph­et is not
with­out hon­or ex­cept in his own town,
among his rel­a­tives and in his own h
­ ome.”
5 He ­could not do any mir­a c ­ les t ­ here, ex­
cept lay his h
­ ands on a few sick peo­ple and
heal them. 6 He was ­amazed at t ­ heir lack of
faith.
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
Then ­Jesus went ­around teach­ing from
vil­lage to vil­lage. 7   Call­ing the ­Twelve to
him, he be­gan to send them out two by
two and gave them au­thor­i t ­ y over im­pure
spir­its.
8  These were his in­struc­tions: “Take
noth­ing for the jour­ney ex­cept a s ­ taff — ​
no ­bread, no bag, no mon­ey in your ­belts.
9 Wear san­
dals but not an ex­
tra ­
shirt.
10 When­ev­er you en­ter a ­house, stay ­there
un­til you ­leave that town. 11 And if any ­place
will not wel­come you or lis­ten to you, l ­ eave
that place and ­shake the dust off your feet
as a tes­ti­mo­ny ­against them.”
12 They went out and ­preached that peo­
­ rove out many
ple ­should re­pent. 13 They d
de­mons and anoint­ed many sick peo­ple
with oil and ­healed them.
John the Baptist Beheaded
14 King Her­od ­heard ­about this, for ­Jesus’
name had be­come well k
­ nown. Some were
say­ing,  c “John the Bap­tist has been r ­ aised
from the dead, and that is why mi­rac­u­lous
pow­ers are at work in him.”
15 Oth­ers said, “He is Eli­jah.”
And ­still oth­ers ­claimed, “He is a proph­
et, like one of the proph­ets of long ago.”
16 But when Her­od ­heard this, he said,
“John, whom I be­head­ed, has been ­raised
from the dead!”
17 For Her­od him­self had giv­en or­ders to
have John ar­rest­ed, and he had him b
­ ound
and put in pris­on. He did this be­cause of
He­ro­di­as, his broth­er Phil­ip’s wife, whom
he had mar­ried. 18 For John had been say­ing
to Her­od, “It is not law­ful for you to have
your broth­er’s wife.” 19  So He­ro­di­as ­nursed
a ­grudge ­against John and want­ed to kill
him. But she was not able to, 20 be­cause Her­
od f ­ eared John and pro­tect­ed him, know­
ing him to be a righ­teous and holy man.
When Her­od h
­ eard John, he was great­ly
puz­zled  d ; yet he ­liked to lis­ten to him.
21 Fi­nal­ly the op­por­tune time came. On
his birth­day Her­od gave a ban­quet for his
high of­fi­cials and mil­i­tary com­mand­ers
and the lead­ing men of Gal­i l ­ ee. 22 When the
daugh­ter of  e He­ro­di­as came in and ­danced,
she p
­ leased Her­od and his din­ner guests.
The king said to the girl, “Ask me for
any­thing you want, and I’ll give it to you.”
23 And he prom­
ised her with an oath,
“What­ev­er you ask I will give you, up to
half my king­dom.”
24 She went out and said to her moth­er,
“What s ­ hall I ask for?”
“The head of John the Bap­tist,” she an­
swered.
25 At once the girl hur­ried in to the king
with the re­quest: “I want you to give me
a  36 Or Ignoring    b  3 Greek
Joses, a variant of
Joseph    c  14  Some early manuscripts He was
d
saying     20  Some early manuscripts he did
many things    e  22  Some early manuscripts
When his daughter