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But wherever they will not receive you or listen to you, when you leave shake off the very dust from under your feet to bear witness concerning them."
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So they set out, and preached in order that men might repent.
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Many demons they expelled, and many invalids they anointed with oil and cured.
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King Herod heard of all this (for the name of Jesus had become widely known), and he kept saying, "John the Baptizer has come back to life, and that is why these miraculous Powers are working in him."
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Others asserted that He was Elijah. Others again said, "He is a Prophet, like one of the great Prophets."
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But when Herod heard of Him, he said, "The John, whom I beheaded, has come back to life."
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For Herod himself had sent and had had John arrested and had kept him in prison in chains, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.
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For John had repeatedly told Herod, "You have no right to be living with your brother's wife."
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Therefore Herodias hated him and wished to take his life, but could not;
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for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing him to be an upright and holy man, and he protected him. After listening to him he was in great perplexity, and yet he found a pleasure in listening.
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At length Herodias found her opportunity. Herod on his birthday gave a banquet to the nobles of his court and to the tribunes and the principal people in Galilee,