Mark 6:1-28 ▼

1 And he departed thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples followed him.

2 And when the sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue. And many that heard him were astonished, and said: Whence has this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given to him, that even such mighty deeds are done by his hands?

3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses and Judah and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they found in him cause for offense.

4 But Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without honor, unless in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.

5 And he was unable to do any mighty deed there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick persons and cured them;

6 and he wondered at their unbelief. And he went to the villages round about, and taught.

7 And he called to him the twelve, and began to send them out, two and two, and gave them authority over unclean spirits.

8 And he commanded them to take nothing for their journey, but a staff only; no bag, no bread, no money in their purses;

9 but to be shod with sandals, and not to put on two coats.

10 And he said to them: Wherever you enter a house, there make your home till you depart from that place.

11 And whoever will not receive you, nor hear you, when you go out from that place, shake off the dust under your feet, for a testimony against them. Verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.

12 And they went out and preached that men should repent;

13 and they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and cured them.

14 And Herod the king heard of him, for his name had be come known; and he said: John the Immerser has risen from the dead, and for this reason, the powers of the spiritual world are active within him.

15 Others said: He is Elijah. Others said: He is a prophet like one of the prophets.

16 But when Herod heard of him, he said: John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead.

17 For Herod himself had sent and taken John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip; for he had married her.

18 For John said to Herod: It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.

19 And Herodias was angry with him, and desired to have him killed, and was not able;

20 for Herod feared John, because he knew him to be a just and holy man; and he kept him in safety. And having heard him, he did many things, and heard him with pleasure.

21 And a suitable day having come, when Herod, on his birth day, made a supper for his great men, and his chief officers, and the first men of Galilee;

22 and the daughter of this Herodias having come in, and danced, and pleased Herod and his guests, the king said to the maiden: Ask me what you will, and I will give it to you.

23 And he swore to her: What ever you ask, I will give you, to the half of my kingdom.

24 But she went out, and said to her mother: What shall I ask? She replied: The head of John the Immerser.

25 And she came in immediately, with haste, to the king, and made her request, saying: I desire that you give me, at once, in a dish, the head of John the Immerser.

26 And the king was very sad; yet, on account of his oath and his guests, he would not reject her.

27 And the king immediately sent one of his guards, and commanded his head to be brought.

28 And he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish, and gave it to the maiden; and the maiden gave it to her mother.