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Mark 6:26  l  864
r ­ ight now the head of John the Bap­tist on
a plat­ter.”
26 The king was great­ly dis­tressed, but
be­cause of his ­oaths and his din­ner g
­ uests,
he did not want to refuse her. 27 So he im­
me­di­ate­ly sent an ex­e­cu­tion­er with or­ders
to b
­ ring ­John’s head. The man went, be­
head­ed John in the pris­on, 28   and ­brought
back his head on a plat­ter. He pre­sent­ed it
to the girl, and she gave it to her moth­er.
29 On hear­ing of this, ­John’s dis­ci­ples came
and took his body and laid it in a tomb.
Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
30   The apos­tles gath­ered ­around ­Jesus
and re­port­ed to him all they had done and
­taught. 31 Then, be­cause so many peo­ple
were com­ing and go­ing that they did not
even have a ­chance to eat, he said to them,
“Come with me by your­selves to a qui­et
place and get some rest.”
32 So they went away by them­selves in
a boat to a sol­i­tary p
­ lace. 33 But many who
saw them leav­ing rec­og­nized them and ran
on foot from all the t ­ owns and got t ­ here
ahead of them. 34   When ­Jesus land­ed and
saw a l ­ arge c ­ rowd, he had com­pas­sion on
them, be­cause they were like s ­ heep with­
out a shep­herd. So he be­gan teach­ing them
many things.
35 By this time it was late in the day, so
his dis­ci­ples came to him. “This is a re­mote
place,” they said, “and it’s al­ready very late.
36 Send the peo­ple away so that they can go
to the sur­round­ing coun­try­side and vil­lag­
es and buy them­selves some­thing to eat.”
37 But he an­
swered, “You give them
some­thing to eat.”
They said to him, “That ­would take more
than half a ­year’s wag­es  a  ! Are we to go and
spend that much on ­bread and give it to
them to eat?”
38 “How many ­loaves do you have?” he
asked. “Go and see.”
When they f ­ ound out, they said, “Five — ​
and two fish.”
39 Then ­Jesus di­rect­ed them to have all
the peo­ple sit down in ­groups on the ­green
grass. 40 So they sat down in g
­ roups of hun­
dreds and fif­ties. 41 Tak­ing the five ­loaves
and the two fish and look­ing up to heav­
en, he gave ­thanks and ­broke the ­loaves.
Then he gave them to his dis­ci­ples to dis­
trib­ute to the peo­ple. He also di­vid­ed the
two fish ­among them all. 42 They all ate and
were sat­is­fied, 43   and the dis­ci­ples ­picked
up ­twelve bas­ket­fuls of bro­ken piec­es of
bread and fish. 44 The num­ber of the men
who had eat­en was five thou­sand.
Jesus Walks on the Water
45   Im­me­di­ate­ly ­Jesus made his dis­ci­
ples get into the boat and go on ­ahead of
him to Beth­sa­i­da, ­while he dis­missed the
crowd. 46 Af­ter leav­ing them, he went up on
a moun­tain­side to pray.
47 Later that night, the boat was in the
mid­dle of the lake, and he was a
­ lone on
land. 48 He saw the dis­ci­ples strain­ing at the
oars, be­cause the wind was a
­ gainst them.
Short­ly be­fore dawn he went out to them,
walk­ing on the lake. He was ­about to pass
by them, 49 but when they saw him walk­ing
on the lake, they ­thought he was a g
­ host.
They ­cried out, 50 be­cause they all saw him
and were ter­ri­fied.
Im­me­di­ate­ly he ­spoke to them and
said, “Take cour­age! It is I. ­Don’t be ­afraid.”
51 Then he c ­ limbed into the boat with them,
and the wind died down. They were com­
plete­ly ­amazed, 52 for they had not un­der­
stood a
­ bout the l ­ oaves; t ­ heir h
­ earts were
hard­ened.
53 When they had ­crossed over, they land­
ed at Gen­nes­a­ret and an­chored ­there. 54 As
soon as they got out of the boat, peo­ple
rec­og­nized ­Jesus. 55 They ran through­out
that ­whole re­gion and car­ried the sick on
mats to wher­ev­er they ­heard he was. 56 And
wher­ev­er he went  — ​into vil­lag­es, ­towns
or coun­try­side — ​they p
­ laced the sick in
the mar­ket­plac­es. They ­begged him to let
them ­touch even the edge of his ­cloak, and
all who ­touched it were healed.
That Which Defiles
7
The Phar­i­sees and some of the teach­ers
of the law who had come from Je­ru­sa­
lem gath­ered ­around ­Jesus 2 and saw some
of his dis­ci­ples eat­ing food with h
­ ands
that were de­filed, that is, un­washed. 3 (The
Phar­i­sees and all the Jews do not eat un­
less they give ­their ­hands a cer­e­mo­ni­al
wash­ing, hold­ing to the tra­di­tion of the
el­ders. 4 When they come from the mar­
ket­place they do not eat un­less they wash.
And they ob­serve many oth­er tra­di­tions,
such as the wash­ing of cups, pitch­ers and
ket­tles.  b  )
5 So the Phar­i­sees and teach­ers of the
law ­asked ­Jesus, “Why ­don’t your dis­ci­ples
live ac­cord­ing to the tra­di­tion of the el­ders
in­stead of eat­ing ­their food with de­filed
hands?”
6   He re­plied, “Isa­iah was ­right when he
a  37 Greek take two hundred denarii    b  4 Some
early manuscripts pitchers, kettles and dining
couches