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Immediately the king sent a soldier of the guard with orders to bring John's head. He went and beheaded him in the prison,
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brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl. Then the girl gave it to her mother.
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When his disciples heard about it, they came and took his body, and laid it in a tomb.
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The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught.
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He said to them, "Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while." For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.
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And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.
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Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.
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As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.
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When it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and the hour is now very late;
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send them away so that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy something for themselves to eat."
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But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They said to him, "Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give it to them to eat?"