Mark 6:19-41

¹⁹Therefore Herodias layd waite against him, and would haue killed him, but she could not:

²⁰For Herod feared Iohn, knowing that hee was a iust man, and an holy, and reuerenced him, and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

²¹But the time being conuenient, when Herod on his birth day made a banket to his princes and captaines, and chiefe estates of Galile:

²²And the daughter of the same Herodias came in, and daunced, and pleased Herod, and them that sate at table together, the King sayd vnto the mayde, Aske of me what thou wilt, and I will giue it thee.

²³And he sware vnto her, Whatsoeuer thou shalt aske of me, I will giue it thee, euen vnto the halfe of my kingdome.

²⁴So she went forth, and said to her mother, What shall I aske? And she said, Iohn Baptists head.

²⁵Then she came in straightway with haste vnto the King, and asked, saying, I would that thou shouldest giue me euen now in a charger the head of Iohn Baptist.

²⁶Then the King was very sory: yet for his othes sake, and for their sakes which sate at table with him, he would not refuse her.

²⁷And immediatly the King sent the hangman, and gaue charge that his head shoulde be brought in. So he went and beheaded him in the prison,

²⁸And brought his head in a charger, and gaue it to the maide, and the maide gaue it to her mother.

²⁹And when his disciples heard it, they came and tooke vp his body, and put it in a tombe.

³⁰And the Apostles gathered themselues together to Iesus, and tolde him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.

³¹And he sayd vnto them, Come ye apart into the wildernes, and rest a while: for there were many commers and goers, that they had not leasure to eate.

³²So they went by ship out of the way into a desart place.

³³But the people sawe them when they departed, and many knewe him, and ran a foote thither out of all cities, and came thither before them, and assembled vnto him.

³⁴Then Iesus went out, and sawe a great multitude, and had compassion on them, because they were like sheepe which had no shepheard: and he began to teach them many things.

³⁵And when the day was nowe farre spent, his disciples came vnto him, saying, This is a desart place, and nowe the day is farre passed.

³⁶Let them depart, that they may goe into the countrey and townes about, and buy them bread: for they haue nothing to eate.

³⁷But he answered, and said vnto them, Giue yee them to eate. And they said vnto him, Shall we goe, and buy two hundreth peny worth of bread, and giue them to eate?

³⁸Then he sayde vnto them, Howe many loaues haue ye? goe and looke. And when they knewe it, they sayd, Fiue, and two fishes.

³⁹So he commanded them to make them all sit downe by companies vpon the greene grasse.

⁴⁰Then they sate downe by rowes, by hundreds, and by fifties.

⁴¹And he tooke the fiue loaues, and the two fishes, and looked vp to heauen, and gaue thanks, and brake the loaues, and gaue them to his disciples to set before them, and the two fishes he deuided among them all.