013:051 "Have you understood all this?" He asked. "Yes," they said.
013:052 "Therefore," He said, "remember that every Scribe well trained
for the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a householder who brings
out of his storehouse new things and old."
013:053 Jesus concluded this series of parables and then departed.
013:054 And He came into His own country and proceeded to teach in
their synagogue, so that they were filled with astonishment
and exclaimed, "Where did he obtain such wisdom,
and these wondrous powers?
013:055 Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary?
And are not his brothers, James, Joseph, Simon and Judah?
013:056 And his sisters--are they not all living here among us?
Where then did he get all this?"
013:057 So they turned angrily away from Him. But Jesus said to them,
"There is no prophet left without honour except in his own
country and among his own family."
013:058 And He performed but few mighty deeds there because of their
want of faith.
014:001 About that time Herod the Tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,
014:002 and he said to his courtiers, "This is John the Baptist:
he has come back to life--and that is why these miraculous
Powers are working in him."
014:003 For Herod had arrested John, and had put him in chains,
and imprisoned him, for the sake of Herodias his
brother Philip's wife,
014:004 because John had persistently said to him, "It is not lawful
for you to have her."
014:005 And he would have liked to put him to death, but was afraid
of the people, because they regarded John as a Prophet.
014:006 But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced