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1155  /   Mark 6:37 
no ­bread, no bag, no mon­ey in your ­belts.
san­d als but not an ex­t ra ­shirt.
10  When­ev­er you en­ter a ­house, stay ­t here
un­t il you ­leave that town. 11  And if any
place will not wel­come you or lis­ten to
you, ­leave that place and ­shake the dust
off your feet as a tes­ti­mo­ny ­against them.”
12  They went out and ­preached that
peo­ple ­should re­pent. 13  They ­d rove out
many de­mons and anoint­ed many sick
peo­ple with oil and ­healed them.
9  Wear
John the Baptist Beheaded
14  King
Her­o d ­heard ­about this, for
J ­ esus’ name had be­come well ­known.
Some were say­ing,  a “John the Bap­tist has
been ­raised from the dead, and that is why
mi­rac­u ­lous pow­ers are at work in him.”
15  Oth­ers said, “He is Eli­jah.”
And ­still oth­e rs ­claimed, “He is a
proph­et, 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
bound and put in pris­on. He did this be­
cause of He­ro­d i­a s, his broth­er Phil­ip’s
wife, whom he had mar­r ied. 18  For John
had been say­ing to Her­od, “It is not law­
ful for you to have your broth­er’s wife.”
19  So He­ro­d i­a s ­nursed a ­g rudge ­a gainst
John and want­ed to kill him. But she was
not able to, 20  be­cause Her­od ­feared John
and pro­tect­ed him, know­ing him to be
a righ­teous and holy man. When Her­od
heard John, he was great­ly puz­zled  b ; yet
he ­liked to lis­ten to him.
21  Fi­nal­ly the op­por­t une time came. On
his birth­day Her­od gave a ban­quet for his
high of­f i­c ials and mil­i­tary com­mand­ers
and the lead­ing men of Gal­i­lee. 22  When
the daugh­ter of  c He­ro­d i­a s came in and
danced, she ­pleased Her­od and his din­
ner guests.
The king said to the girl, “Ask me for
any­thing you want, and I’ll give it to you.”
23  And he prom­i sed 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 ­shall I ask for?”
“The head of John the Bap­tist,” she an­
swered.
25  At once the girl hur­r ied in to the king
with the re­quest: “I want you to give me
right now the head of John the Bap­tist on
a plat­ter.”
26  The king was great­ly dis­t ressed, 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 ­bring ­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 moth­
er. 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 apos­t les gath­ered ­a round ­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 ­place. 33  But many who
saw them leav­ing rec­og­n ized 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 com­pas­sion
on them, be­cause they were like ­sheep
with­out 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 re­
mote ­place,” they said, “and it’s al­ready
very late. 36  Send the peo­ple away so that
they can go to the sur­round­i ng coun­
try­side and vil­lag­es and buy them­selves
some­thing to eat.”
37  But he an­s wered, “You give them
some­thing to eat.”
They said to him, “That ­would take
more than half a ­year’s wag­es  d  ! Are we to
go and ­spend that much on ­bread and give
it to them to eat?”
a  14  Some early manuscripts He was saying   
b  20  Some early manuscripts he did many things   
c  22  Some early manuscripts When his daughter   
d  37  Greek take two hundred denarii