So he sent and had John beheaded in the prison.

Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River.

They answered, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

But if we say, ‘From people,’ we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet.”

For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them privately up a high mountain.

Going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. Then he called them.