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For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.

For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of this man, you evil spirit!"

"My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many." And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area.

Jesus did not let him, but said, "Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you."

So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.

A large crowd followed and pressed around him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.

These were his instructions: "Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts.

King Herod heard about this, for Jesus' name had become well known. Some were saying, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him."

For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married.

For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

Finally the opportune time came. On his birthday Herod gave a banquet for his high officials and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.

The king said to the girl, "Ask me for anything you want, and I'll give it to you." And he promised her with an oath, "Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom."

She went out and said to her mother, "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptist," she answered.

for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'

then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")

For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

"First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."