JESUS IN GALILEE

JOHN THE BAPTIST IMPRISONED.

Herod the tetrarch sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife; for he had married her.  For John said unto Herod, “It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife.”

And Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him:  and she could not; for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe.

And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

RECEPTION OF JESUS BY THE GALILAEANS.

Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast:  for they also went unto the feast.

And a fame went out concerning him through all the region round about.  And he taught in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:  repent ye, and believe in the gospel.”

HEALING THE NOBLEMAN’S SON.

He came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine.  And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.  When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

Jesus therefore said unto him, “Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe.”

The nobleman saith unto him, “Sir, come down ere my child die.”

Jesus saith unto him, “Go thy way; thy son liveth.”

The man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him, and he went his way.  And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying that his son lived.  So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend.

They said therefore unto him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, “Thy son liveth”:  and himself believed, and his whole house.

This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judaea into Galilee.

THE RECALL OF THE FISHERMEN.

And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, which is by the sea, in the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali:  that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

    “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
    Toward the sea, beyond the Jordan,
    Galilee of the Gentiles,
    The people that sat in darkness
    Saw a great light,
    And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death,
    To them did light spring up.”