1 Anuo metu garsas apie Jėzų pasiekė tetrarchą Erodą,
2 ir jis savo tarnams pasakė: "Tai Jonas Krikštytojas! Jis prisikėlė iš numirusių, ir todėl jame veikia stebuklingos jėgos".
3 Mat Erodas buvo suėmęs Joną, sukaustęs jį ir įmetęs į kalėjimą dėl savo brolio Pilypo žmonos Erodiados.
4 Nes Jonas jam sakė: "Tau nevalia jos turėti".
5 Erodas norėjo nužudyti Joną, bet bijojo žmonių, nes jie laikė jį pranašu.
6 Erodo gimimo dieną Erodiados duktė šoko svečiams ir patiko Erodui.
7 Todėl jis su priesaika pažadėjo jai duoti, ko tik ji paprašys.
8 O ši, savo motinos primokyta, tarė: "Duok man čia dubenyje Jono Krikštytojo galvą".
9 Karalius nuliūdo, bet dėl priesaikos ir svečių įsakė duoti.
10 Jis pasiuntė nukirsti kalėjime Jonui galvą.
11 Jo galva buvo atnešta dubenyje ir įteikta mergaitei, kuri ją nunešė motinai.
12 Jono mokiniai atėję pasiėmė kūną, palaidojo ir nuėję pranešė Jėzui.
13 Tai išgirdęs, Jėzus valtimi nuplaukė į dykvietę, į vienumą. Minios sužinojo ir iš miestų pėsčiomis nusekė paskui.
14 Išlipęs Jėzus pamatė daugybę žmonių. Jėzui pagailo jų, ir Jis išgydė jų ligonius.
15 Atėjus vakarui, priėjo mokiniai ir tarė: "Čia dykvietė, ir jau vėlus metas. Paleisk žmones, kad, nuėję į kaimus, nusipirktų maisto".
16 Bet Jėzus jiems atsakė: "Nėra reikalo jiems iš čia eiti. Jūs duokite jiems valgyti".
17 Jie atsiliepė: "Mes čia turime tik penkis kepalus duonos ir dvi žuvis".
18 Jis tarė: "Atneškite juos man".
19 Ir, liepęs miniai susėsti ant žolės, Jis paėmė penkis duonos kepalus ir dvi žuvis, pažvelgė į dangų, palaimino, laužė ir davė kepalus mokiniams, o tie dalijo žmonėms.
20 Visi valgė ir pasisotino. Ir surinko dvylika pilnų pintinių likusių trupinių.
21 O valgytojų buvo apie penkis tūkstančius vyrų, neskaičiuojant moterų ir vaikų.
22 Tuojau pat Jėzus privertė savo mokinius sėsti į valtį ir pirma Jo plaukti į kitą ežero pusę, kol Jis paleisiąs minią.
23 Paleidęs minią, Jis užkopė nuošaliai į kalną melstis. Atėjus vakarui, Jis buvo ten vienas.
24 Tuo tarpu valtis jau buvo ežero viduryje, blaškoma bangų, nes pūtė priešingas vėjas.
25 Ketvirtos nakties sargybos metu Jėzus atėjo pas juos, žengdamas ežero paviršiumi.
26 Pamatę Jį einantį ežero paviršiumi, mokiniai nusigando ir iš baimės ėmė šaukti: "Tai šmėkla!"
27 Jėzus tuojau juos prakalbino: "Drąsos! Tai Aš. Nebijokite!"
28 Petras atsiliepė: "Viešpatie, jei čia Tu, liepk man ateiti pas Tave vandeniu".
29 Jis atsakė: "Ateik!" Petras, išlipęs iš valties, ėjo vandeniu, norėdamas ateiti pas Jėzų.
30 Bet, pamatęs vėjo smarkumą, jis išsigando ir, pradėjęs skęsti, sušuko: "Viešpatie, gelbėk mane!"
31 Tuojau ištiesęs ranką, Jėzus sugriebė jį ir tarė: "Mažatiki, ko suabejojai?"
32 Jiems įlipus į valtį, vėjas nurimo.
33 Tie, kurie buvo valtyje, prisiartinę pagarbino Jį, sakydami: "Tikrai Tu esi Dievo Sūnus!"
34 Perplaukę jie išlipo į krantą Genezarete.
35 Pažinę Jį, tos vietos gyventojai pasiuntė į visas to krašto apylinkes ir sugabeno pas Jį visus sergančius.
36 Jie maldavo Jį leisti palytėti nors Jo apsiausto apvadą. Ir kurie tik palietėtapo visiškai sveiki.
1 At that time news of Jesus came to Herod the king;
2 And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he has come back from the dead, and so these powers are working in him.
3 For Herod had taken John and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
4 Because John had said to him, It is not right for you to have her.
5 And he would have put him to death, but for his fear of the people, because in their eyes John was a prophet.
6 But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias was dancing before them, and Herod was pleased with her.
7 So he gave her his word with an oath to let her have whatever she might make request for.
8 And she, at her mother's suggestion, said, Give me here on a plate the head of John the Baptist.
9 And the king was sad; but because of his oaths and because of his guests, he gave the order for it to be given to her;
10 And he sent and had John's head cut off in the prison.
11 And his head was put on a plate and given to the girl; and she took it to her mother.
12 And his disciples came, and took up his body and put it in the earth; and they went and gave Jesus news of what had taken place.
13 Now when it came to the ears of Jesus, he went away from there in a boat, to a waste place by himself: and the people hearing of it, went after him on foot from the towns.
14 And he came out and saw a great number of people and he had pity on them, and made well those of them who were ill.
15 And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past; send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food.
16 But Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away; give them food yourselves.
17 And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.
18 And he said, Give them to me.
19 And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.
20 And they all took of the food and had enough: and they took up twelve baskets full of broken bits which were not used.
21 And those who had food were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.
22 And straight away he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, till he had sent the people away.
23 And after he had sent the people away, he went up into the mountain by himself for prayer: and when evening was come, he was there by himself.
24 But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, and was troubled by the waves: for the wind was against them.
25 And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.
26 And when they saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they gave cries of fear.
27 But straight away Jesus said to them, Take heart; it is I, have no fear.
28 And Peter, answering, said to him, Lord, if it is you, give me the order to come to you on the water.
29 And he said, Come. And Peter got out of the boat, and walking on the water, went to Jesus.
30 But when he saw the wind he was in fear and, starting to go down, he gave a cry, saying, Help, Lord.
31 And straight away Jesus put out his hand and took a grip of him, and said to him, O man of little faith, why were you in doubt?
32 And when they had got into the boat, the wind went down.
33 And those who were in the boat gave him worship, saying, Truly you are the Son of God.
34 And when they had gone across, they came to land at Gennesaret.
35 And when the men of that place had news of him, they sent into all the country round about, and took to him all who were ill,
36 With the request that they might only put their hands on the edge of his robe: and all those who did so were made well.