Matthew 14:1-18 ▼

1 At that tyme Herode the Tetrarch, hearde of the fame of Iesu.

2 And sayde vnto his seruauntes: this is Iohn the Baptist, he is risen from the dead, and therfore great workes do shewe foorth them selues in hym.

3 For Herode had taken Iohn, and bounde hym, and put hym in prison, for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wyfe.

4 For Iohn sayde vnto hym: it is not lawfull for thee to haue her.

5 And when he woulde haue put hym to death, he feared the people: because they counted hym as a prophete.

6 But when Herodes birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias daunsed before them, and pleased Herode.

7 Wherfore he promised with an othe, that he woulde geue her whatsoeuer she woulde aske.

8 And she, beyng instruct of her mother before, sayde: geue me here Iohn Baptistes head in a platter.

9 And the kyng was sory: Neuerthelesse, for the othes sake, and them which sate also at the table, he commaunded it to be geuen her:

10 And sent, and beheaded Iohn in the pryson.

11 And his head was brought in a platter, and geuen to the damsell: and she brought it to her mother.

12 And his disciples came, and toke vp his body, and buryed it: and went, and tolde Iesus.

13 When Iesus hearde of it, he departed thence in a shyp, vnto a desert place, out of the way: And when the people had hearde therof, they folowed hym on foote out of the cities.

14 And Iesus went foorth, and sawe much people: and was moued with mercye towarde them, and he healed their sicke.

15 And when the euen drewe on, his disciples came to hym, saying: this is a desert place, and the hour is nowe past, let the people depart, that they may go into the townes, and bye them vittels.

16 But Iesus sayde vnto them: They haue no nede to go away, geue ye them to eate.

17 They saye vnto hym: we haue here but fyue loaues, and two fisshes.

18 He sayde: bryng them hyther to me.