1135 / Mark 6:16
28 be cause she thought, “If I just touch his
clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately
her bleed ing stopped and she felt in her
body that she was freed from her suf fer ing.
30 At once Jesus re al ized that pow er had
gone out from him. He turned around in
the crowd and asked, “Who touched my
clothes?”
31 “You see the peo ple crowd ing against
you,” his dis ci ples an swered, “and yet you
can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
32 But Jesus kept look ing around to
see who had done it. 33 Then the woman,
know ing what had hap pened to her,
came and fell at his feet and, trem bling
with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He
said to her, “Daugh ter, your faith has
healed you. Go in peace and be freed
from your suffering.”
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some
peo ple came from the house of Ja i rus,
the syn a gogue lead er. “Your daugh ter is
dead,” they said. “Why both er the teach er
anymore?”
36 Over hear ing
a
what they said, Jesus
told him, “Don’t be afraid; just be lieve.”
37 He did not let any one fol low him except
Pe ter, James and John the broth er of
James. 38 When they came to the home of
the syn a gogue lead er, Jesus saw a commotion,
with people crying and wailing
loud ly. 39 He went in and said to them,
“Why all this com mo tion and wail ing?
The child is not dead but asleep.” 40 But
they laughed at him.
Af ter he put them all out, he took the
child’s fa ther and moth er and the disci
ples who were with him, and went in
where the child was. 41 He took her by the
hand and said to her, “Tal i tha koum!”
(which means “Lit tle girl, I say to you,
get up!”). 42 Im me di ate ly the girl stood
up and be gan to walk around (she was
twelve years old). At this they were completely
astonished. 43 He gave strict or ders
not to let any one know about this, and
told them to give her some thing to eat.
A PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR
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Jesus
left there and went to his
hometown, accompanied by his disciples.
2 When the Sab bath came, he
be gan to teach in the syn a gogue, and
many who heard him were amazed.
“Where did this man get these things?”
they asked. “What’s this wis dom that has
been giv en him? What are these re markable
miracles he is performing? 3 Isn’t this
the car pen ter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and
the brother of James, Joseph,
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Judas and
Si mon? Aren’t his sis ters here with us?”
And they took of fense at him.
4 Jesus said to them, “A proph et is not
with out hon or ex cept in his own town,
among his rel a tives and in his own
home.” 5 He could not do any mir a cles
there, ex cept lay his hands on a few sick
peo ple and heal them. 6 He was amazed
at their lack of faith.
JESUS SENDS OUT THE TWELVE
Then Jesus went around teaching from
village to village. 7 Calling the Twelve to
him, he be gan to send them out two by
two and gave them au thor i ty over impure
spirits.
8 These were his in struc tions: “Take
noth ing for the jour ney ex cept a staff —
no bread, no bag, no mon ey in your
belts. 9 Wear san dals but not an ex tra
shirt. 10 Whenever you enter a house, stay
there un til you leave that town. 11 And if
any place will not wel come you or lis ten
to you, leave that place and shake the
dust off your feet as a tes ti mo ny against
them.”
12 They went out and preached that
peo ple should re pent. 13 They drove out
many de mons and anoint ed many sick
peo ple with oil and healed them.
JOHN THE BAPTIST BEHEADED
14 King Her od heard about this, for
Jesus’ name had be come well known.
Some were say ing,
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“John the Bap tist
has been raised from the dead, and that
is why mi rac u lous pow ers are at work in
him.”
15 Oth ers said, “He is Eli jah.”
And still oth ers claimed, “He is a
proph et, like one of the proph ets of long
ago.”
16 But when Her od heard this, he said,
“John, whom I be head ed, has been raised
from the dead!”
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36 Or Ignoring
b
3 Greek Joses, a variant of
Joseph
c
14 Some early manuscripts He was
saying