Mark 6 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
He left there and went to his and his followed him.
When the came, he started teaching in the A large crowd listened and was "Where did this guy get all this?" they said. "What's this wisdom he's been given? And these happening through his hands?"
"Isn't this the Brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters right here with us?" And they at him.
Jesus told them, "A gets respect everywhere except in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own house."
He couldn't do any there, except he on a few sick people and healed them.
He was at their of Then he went around the surrounding villages, teaching.
He called the to him and began sending them out by He gave them authority over
He told them to take nothing for the road except a walking stick — no bread, no bag, no in their belts.
"Wear sandals," he said, "but don't pack an
He told them, "Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town."
"And if any place won't welcome you or listen to you, walk away and the as them."
They went out and that people should
They drove out many and on many sick people and healed them.
heard about all this, because Jesus' name had become well known. Some people were saying, the has been from the — that's why these powers are at work through him."
Others said, "He's And others said, "He's a prophet — like one of the ancient prophets."
But when Herod heard about it, he said, "It's John — the one I He's been raised."
Here's what had happened: Herod himself had sent men to arrest John and chain him up in prison. He did this because of his brother Philip's wife, whom Herod had married.
John had been telling Herod, "It's not for you to have your brother's wife."
So Herodias a against John and wanted to kill him, but she couldn't.
Herod was actually afraid of John, because he knew John was a and man. So he protected him. Whenever he listened to John, he was — and yet he liked listening to him.
Then the came. On his birthday, Herod threw a banquet for his and the leading men of Galilee.
When Herodias' own daughter came in and she Herod and his dinner guests. The king said to the girl, "Ask me for whatever you want, and I'll give it to you."
He to "Whatever you ask me, I'll give you — up to my
She went out and asked her mother, "What should I ask for?" Her mother said, "The head of the
She rushed back in to the king and made her request: "I want you to give me — right now — the head of John the Submerger on a
The king was but because of his and his dinner guests, he didn't want to refuse her.
The king immediately sent an with orders to bring John's head. The soldier went and beheaded him in the prison,
brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl. And the girl gave it to her mother.
When John's students heard about it, they came and took his body and placed it in a
The gathered back around Jesus and reported everything they had done and taught.
He said to them, "Come away to a by yourselves and rest for a while." There were so many people coming and going that they didn't even have time to eat.
So they left by boat for a quiet place where they could be alone.
But many people saw them leaving and recognized them. They ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.
When Jesus stepped out of the boat and saw the huge crowd, for them, because they were like a So he began teaching them many things.
By now it was getting late in the day. His students came to him and said, "This is a remote area and it's already really late."
"Send the people away so they can go to the surrounding farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat."
But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They said to him, "Should we go spend on bread and give it to them to eat?"
He said to them, "How many do you have? Go check." When they found out, they said, "Five — and two fish."
He told them to have everyone sit down in groups on the
So they sat down in — groups of and of
He took the five loaves and the two fish, up to and Then he the loaves and kept giving them to his students to distribute to the crowd. He also divided the two fish among everyone.
Everyone ate and was
They picked up full of broken pieces of bread and fish.
The men who had eaten the loaves numbered
Right away he his students get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, toward while he dismissed the crowd.
After saying goodbye to them, he up the to
When evening came, the boat was out in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land.
He saw them at the because the wind was against them. Around the of the he came toward them, on the He was about to by them,
but when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a and
They all saw him and were terrified. But right away he spoke to them: It's me. Don't be afraid."