Today's Readings and Stuff -- Monday, 17 March 2014

we went nowhere yesterday.  Dear Wife spent most of the day either in bed, stretched out on the recliner, or throwing up.  Not a good time for anyone.  The pinkeye has moved into the other eye.  Since the condition is fantastically contagious, it is miraculous that I have not contracted it myself.  Yet.  What it means, of course, is that the rough schedule we'd gotten into, with her "watching" namesake grand-niece next door, several days a week, has been on hold the last few weeks what with her various illnesses that we want to avoid passing on -- or back to -- the Little One. 
And I am having numbness in some of my toes on the left foot.  Dear Wife pointed out that I've been wearing a sweatsuit all day with elastic around the ankles which may affect circulation in the foot.  And that I've also been putting sugar in my coffee, rather than the Stevia which is too expensive or the WalMart Splenda which we were being told is at the root of several maladies.  Trying to avoid Peripheral Artery Disease or the like.  Perhaps I'm just being a worrier, which is part of my nature.

Tomorrow she goes back to the oral surgeon who did the major work on her last month.  We'd figured a good six to eight weeks after the surgery before she might begin the process of being fitted for dentures.  She's getting tired of soup, soft bread, and gumming food. She still has two teeth remaining in the lower jaw which actually makes things more difficult, though they will possibly be an anchor point for the lower partial denture.  Will be glad when it's all done.
Scary thing is that in a few weeks I go back to the dentist at which time they will start some work on me.  Will certainly have the remains of a few broken teeth removed, and it's likely that I'll be sporting partial dentures before Autumn.  Since both my parents were much further along that road when they were 25 years younger than I am now, perhaps it's not all bad.  But it does make us look like the walking wounded.

Spent the day yesterday in a lot of prayerful reflection.  Had a song in my head throughout, "The Longer I Serve Him, The Sweeter it Grows".  I need badly to be in a local church and serving in it.  Being away from that, and not serving is contrary to my nature and calling.

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Have been posting about our friends over at Bridges of Faith, the ministry to the orphans in Ukraine, and the issues there in the midst of the turmoil there now.  I can say that one of the staff members is now on the ground in Crimea, and another is heading for Kiev this coming week.  Things are very very difficult.  Prayers needed.

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The reading in the Old Testament is chapters 29 and 30 of Deuteronomy.

Deuteronomy 29

1	These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2	And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
3	The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
4	Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
5	And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
6	Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
7	And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
8	And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
9	Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
10	Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
11	Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
12	That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
13	That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14	Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
15	But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
16	(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
17	And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
18	Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
19	And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
20	The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
21	And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
22	So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
23	And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
24	Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
25	Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
26	For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
27	And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
28	And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
29	The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 30

1	And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
2	And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
3	That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
4	If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
5	And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
6	And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
7	And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
8	And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
9	And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
10	If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
11	For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
12	It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13	Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
14	But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
15	See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16	In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
17	But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18	I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
19	I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20	That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

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The New Testament reading is chapter 16 of the Gospel of Mark, completing it.
Yesterday's passage was the Crucifixion.  This passage is a terse account of the Resurrection and the Ascension.

Mark 16

1	And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
2	And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
3	And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
4	And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
5	And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
6	And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
7	But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
8	And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.
9	Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
10	And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
11	And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
12	After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.
13	And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.
14	Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
15	And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16	He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
17	And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18	They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
19	So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
20	And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

 

Today's Readings and Stuff -- Tuesday, 25 February 2014

18 degrees here, might get up to low 20's.  Whatever happened to Global Warming and the screeches that snow was about to be a thing of the past?  said situation to begin some time around 1999 or so.  Too bad it was a lie. 

Continuing the advertisements for the ministry Bridges of Faith in Millbrook, Alabama.  (FaceeBook page here).  They are a Christian ministry in outreach to orphans in the Ukraine.  It's very very much affected, as are the children in that nation, by the tumult going on there. Wasn't a particularly good situation even before, worse now, and my belief is that it will get yet worse.  They need our assistance of all kinds, and certainly our prayer support.  Go here to volunteer for that last effort.

Dear Wife is prepping to go over to "watch" Beloved Grand-Niece.  Was supposed to be doing that yesterday, but the little one was sick all Sunday evening and night, and Dear Niece called off work Monday and they ended up in the children's hospital clinic much of the day with a potentially serious ear and throat infection.  Serious enough that they prescribed Keflex for it, which is a heavy-duty antibiotic that is very rarely prescribed for kids, particularly for kids just over a  year old.  Little one is said to be sleeping now, and mom (our niece) has some running she HAS to do today, so Dear Wife has the watch.

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The Old Testament passage today is chapters 14 and 15 of the book of Numbers.  For those who've never been in a leadership role, particularly in a church, the behavior of the people here may seem a bit over-dramatic.  For those who've been in such a role, it may seem a bit subdued.

Numbers 14

1	And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2	And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
3	And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
4	And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5	Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6	And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
7	And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
8	If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
9	Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
10	But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
11	And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them?
12	I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
13	And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
14	And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15	Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
16	Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
17	And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18	The LORD is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
19	Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
20	And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
21	But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
22	Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
23	Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
24	But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
25	(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
26	And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
27	How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28	Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
29	Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.
30	Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31	But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
32	But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness.
33	And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
34	After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
35	I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36	And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
37	Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
38	But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
39	And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
40	And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
41	And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
42	Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
43	For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
44	But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
45	Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

Numbers 15

1	And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2	Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
3	And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savor unto the LORD, of the herd or of the flock:
4	Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.
5	And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
6	Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
7	And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savor unto the LORD.
8	And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the LORD:
9	Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
10	And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD.
11	Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.
12	According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.
13	All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD.
14	And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
15	One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
16	One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
17	And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
18	Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
19	Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
20	Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
21	Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
22	And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
23	Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;
24	Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
25	And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
26	And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
27	And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
28	And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
29	Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
30	But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
31	Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
32	And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
33	And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
34	And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
35	And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
36	And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
37	And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
38	Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
39	And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
40	That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
41	I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.

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The New Testament passage comes from the 6th chapter of the Gospel of Mark, verses 1-32

Mark 6:1-32

1	And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him.
2	And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
3	Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
4	But Jesus, said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
5	And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
6	And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
7	And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;
8	And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:
9	But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.
10	And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place.
11	And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
12	And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
13	And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
14	And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
15	Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.
16	But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.
17	For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.
18	For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
19	Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:
20	For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.
21	And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;
22	And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
23	And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
24	And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
25	And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
26	And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
27	And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
28	And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.
29	And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
30	And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.
31	And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
32	And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.