the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him' ??4 John appeared baptizing in the desert and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

John was dressed in camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Now it was in those days that Jesus arrived from Nazaret in Galilee and got baptized in the Jordan by John.

After John had been arrested, Jesus went to Galilee preaching the gospel of God;

Then going on a little further he saw James the son of Zebedaeus and his brother John; they too were in their boat, mending their nets;

On leaving the synagogue they went straight to the house of Simon and Andrew, accompanied by James and John.

As the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were observing a fast, people came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, and your disciples do not fast?"

James the son of Zebedaeus and John the brother of James (he surnamed them Boanerges, or "Sons of thunder"),

He would not allow anyone to accompany him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

Now this came to the hearing of king Herod, for the name of Jesus had become well known; people said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, that is why miraculous powers are working through him;"

But when Herod heard of it he said, "John has risen, the John I beheaded."

For this Herod had sent and arrested John and bound him in prison on account of his marriage to Herodias the wife of his brother Philip;

John had told Herod, "You have no right to your brother's wife."

for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing he was a just and holy man; so he protected John ??he was greatly exercised when he listened to him, still he was glad to listen to him.

So she went out and said to her mother, "What am I to ask?" "John the Baptizer's head," she answered.

Then she hurried in at once and asked the king, saying, "I want you to give me this very moment John the Baptist's head on a dish."

"John the Baptist," they told him, "though some say Elijah, and others say you are one of the prophets."

Six days afterwards Jesus took Peter, James and John, and led them up a high hill by themselves alone; in their presence he was transfigured,

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name; but he does not follow us, and so we stopped him."

James and John, the sons of Zebedaeus, came up to him saying, "Teacher, we want you to do whatever we ask you."

Now when the ten heard of this, they burst into anger at James and John;

What about the baptism of John? Was it from heaven or from men?"

No, let us say, From men" ??but they were afraid of the multitude, for the people all held John had been really a prophet.

And as he sat on the Hill of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him in private,

But he took Peter and James and John along with him; and as he began to feel appalled and agitated,