Mark 6:17 / 1136
17 For Her od him self had giv en or ders
to have John ar rest ed, and he had him
bound and put in pris on. He did this because
of He ro di as, his broth er Phil ip’s
wife, whom he had mar ried. 18 For John
had been say ing to Her od, “It is not lawful
for you to have your broth er’s wife.”
19 So He ro di as nursed a grudge against
John and want ed to kill him. But she was
not able to, 20 because Herod feared John
and pro tect ed him, know ing him to be
a righ teous and holy man. When Her od
heard John, he was greatly puzzled a ; yet
he liked to lis ten to him.
21 Fi nal ly the op por tune time came. On
his birth day Her od gave a ban quet for his
high officials and military commanders
and the lead ing men of Gal i lee. 22 When
the daugh ter of b He ro di as came in and
danced, she pleased Her od and his dinner
guests.
The king said to the girl, “Ask me for
any thing you want, and I’ll give it to
you.” 23 And he prom ised her with an
oath, “What ev er you ask I will give you,
up to half my king dom.”
24 She went out and said to her moth er,
“What shall I ask for?”
“The head of John the Bap tist,” she answered.
25 At once the girl hur ried in to the king
with the re quest: “I want you to give me
right now the head of John the Bap tist
on a plat ter.”
26 The king was great ly dis tressed, but
be cause of his oaths and his din ner guests,
he did not want to refuse her. 27 So he immediately
sent an executioner with orders
to bring John’s head. The man went, behead
ed John in the pris on, 28 and brought
back his head on a plat ter. He pre sent ed it
to the girl, and she gave it to her moth er.
29 On hear ing of this, John’s dis ci ples came
and took his body and laid it in a tomb.
JESUS FEEDS THE FIVE THOUSAND
30 The apostles gathered around Jesus
and re port ed to him all they had done
and taught. 31 Then, be cause so many people
were com ing and go ing that they did
not even have a chance to eat, he said to
them, “Come with me by your selves to a
qui et place and get some rest.”
32 So they went away by them selves in a
boat to a sol i tary place. 33 But many who
saw them leav ing rec og nized them and
ran on foot from all the towns and got
there ahead of them. 34 When Jesus landed
and saw a large crowd, he had compas
sion on them, be cause they were like
sheep with out a shep herd. So he be gan
teach ing them many things.
35 By this time it was late in the day, so
his dis ci ples came to him. “This is a remote
place,” they said, “and it’s al ready
very late. 36 Send the peo ple away so that
they can go to the sur round ing coun tryside
and vil lag es and buy them selves
some thing to eat.”
37 But he an swered, “You give them
some thing to eat.”
They said to him, “That would take
more than half a year’s wag es c ! 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 found out, they said,
“Five — and two fish.”
39 Then Jesus di rect ed them to have
all the peo ple sit down in groups on the
green grass. 40 So they sat down in groups
of hun dreds and fif ties. 41 Tak ing the five
loaves and the two fish and look ing up
to heav en, he gave thanks and broke the
loaves. Then he gave them to his dis ciples
to dis trib ute to the peo ple. He also
di vid ed the two fish among them all.
42 They all ate and were sat is fied, 43 and
the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls
of bro ken piec es of bread and fish. 44 The
num ber of the men who had eat en was
five thousand.
JESUS WALKS ON THE WATER
45 Im me di ate ly Jesus made his dis ciples
get into the boat and go on ahead
of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed
the crowd. 46 Af ter leav ing them, he went
up on a moun tain side to pray.
47 Later that night, the boat was in the
mid dle of the lake, and he was alone on
land. 48 He saw the dis ci ples strain ing at
the oars, be cause the wind was against
them. Short ly be fore dawn he went out to
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20 Some early manuscripts he did many things
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22 Some early manuscripts When his daughter
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37 Greek take two hundred denarii