But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised!”

But if we say, ‘From people – ’” (they feared the crowd, for they all considered John to be truly a prophet).

He took Peter, James, and John with him, and became very troubled and distressed.

Now after John was imprisoned, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God.

Going on a little farther, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother in their boat mending nets.

to James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, he gave the name Boanerges (that is, “sons of thunder”);

He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.

They said, “John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and still others, one of the prophets.”

For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.

because Herod stood in awe of John and protected him, since he knew that John was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him, he was thoroughly baffled, and yet he liked to listen to John.

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John and led them alone up a high mountain privately. And he was transfigured before them,