So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He is dead!”

John answered them, “The person who has two tunics must share with the person who has none, and the person who has food must do likewise.”

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.

After looking around at them all, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” The man did so, and his hand was restored.

He also told them a parable: “Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years but could not be healed by anyone.

Now when he came to the house, Jesus did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child’s father and mother.

John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he is not a disciple along with us.”

He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

She replied, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.”

Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,

Now many miraculous signs and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico.

He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people and prayed to God regularly.

When the angel who had spoken to him departed, Cornelius called two of his personal servants and a devout soldier from among those who served him,

and Jason has welcomed them as guests! They are all acting against Caesar’s decrees, saying there is another king named Jesus!”

I replied, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.

Rather they had several points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.