Mark 6:3-21

³Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?' — and they were being stumbled at him.

⁴And Jesus said to them — 'A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country, and among his kindred, and in his own house;'

⁵and he was not able there any mighty work to do, except on a few infirm people having put hands he did heal them;

⁶and he wondered because of their unbelief. And he was going round the villages, in a circle, teaching,

⁷and he doth call near the twelve, and he began to send them forth two by two, and he was giving them power over the unclean spirits,

⁸and he commanded them that they may take nothing for the way, except a staff only — no scrip, no bread, no brass in the girdle,

⁹but having been shod with sandals, and ye may not put on two coats.

¹⁰And he said to them, 'Whenever ye may enter into a house, there remain till ye may depart thence,

¹¹and as many as may not receive you, nor hear you, going out thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony to them; verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in a day of judgment than for that city.'

¹²And having gone forth they were preaching that men might reform,

¹³and many demons they were casting out, and they were anointing with oil many infirm, and they were healing them.

¹⁴And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said — 'John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'

¹⁵Others said — 'It is Elijah,' and others said — 'It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.'

¹⁶And Herod having heard, said — 'He whom I did behead — John — this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

¹⁷For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

¹⁸for John said to Herod — 'It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

¹⁹and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,

²⁰for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly.

²¹And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee,