WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.870 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.978 --> 00:00:03.768 Day 43. 00:00:04.624 --> 00:00:09.604 then Jesus went from village to village teaching the people, and he called 00:00:09.604 --> 00:00:14.164 his 12 disciples together and began sending them out two by two, giving 00:00:14.164 --> 00:00:16.504 them authority to cast out evil spirits. 00:00:17.224 --> 00:00:20.824 He told them to take nothing for their journey except a walking stick. 00:00:21.244 --> 00:00:24.604 No food, no traveler's bag, no money. 00:00:25.474 --> 00:00:28.984 He allowed them to wear sandals, but not to take a change of clothes. 00:00:30.649 --> 00:00:31.669 Wherever you go. 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:35.419 He said, stay in the same house until you leave town. 00:00:36.319 --> 00:00:41.239 But if any place refuses to welcome you or listen to you, shake its dust from 00:00:41.239 --> 00:00:45.649 your feet as you leave to show that you have abandoned those people to their fate. 00:00:46.819 --> 00:00:51.289 So the disciples went out telling everyone they met to repent of their 00:00:51.289 --> 00:00:57.919 sins and turn to God, and they cast out many demons and healed many sick people. 00:00:58.579 --> 00:01:05.839 Anointing them with olive oil, Herod anus, the king soon heard about Jesus 00:01:06.259 --> 00:01:07.999 because everyone was talking about him. 00:01:08.629 --> 00:01:12.709 Some were saying this must be John the Baptist, raised from the dead. 00:01:13.129 --> 00:01:14.989 That is why he can do such miracles. 00:01:15.889 --> 00:01:17.569 Others said he's the prophet. 00:01:17.569 --> 00:01:19.099 Elijah still. 00:01:19.099 --> 00:01:22.909 Others said he's a prophet, like the other great prophets of the past. 00:01:24.019 --> 00:01:28.339 When Herod heard about Jesus, he said, John, the man I beheaded 00:01:28.339 --> 00:01:29.809 has come back from the dead. 00:01:30.829 --> 00:01:36.559 For Herod had sent soldiers to arrest and imprison John as a favor to Herods. 00:01:37.399 --> 00:01:42.109 She had been his brother, Phillip's wife, but Herod had married her. 00:01:43.069 --> 00:01:46.759 John had been telling Herod, it is against God's law for you 00:01:46.759 --> 00:01:48.109 to marry your brother's wife. 00:01:48.829 --> 00:01:52.669 So Herod bore a grudge against John and wanted to kill him, 00:01:53.479 --> 00:01:55.009 but without Herod's approval. 00:01:55.069 --> 00:01:56.059 She was powerless. 00:01:56.479 --> 00:02:01.279 For Herod respected John and knowing that he was a good and holy man. 00:02:01.789 --> 00:02:02.689 He protected him. 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:07.219 Herod was greatly disturbed whenever he talked with John, but even 00:02:07.219 --> 00:02:09.289 so, he liked to listen to him. 00:02:10.519 --> 00:02:13.519 Herod's chance finally came on Herod's birthday. 00:02:14.089 --> 00:02:17.749 He gave a party for his high government officials, army officers, 00:02:17.869 --> 00:02:19.699 and the leading citizens of Galilee. 00:02:20.569 --> 00:02:21.439 Then his daughter. 00:02:21.829 --> 00:02:26.209 Also named Herods came in and performed a dance that greatly 00:02:26.209 --> 00:02:27.859 pleased Herod and his guests. 00:02:29.029 --> 00:02:33.019 Ask me for anything you like the king said to the girl, and I will give it to you. 00:02:33.829 --> 00:02:38.329 He even vowed, I will give you whatever you ask, up to half my kingdom. 00:02:39.619 --> 00:02:42.349 She went out and asked her mother, what should I ask for? 00:02:43.189 --> 00:02:46.819 Her mother told her, ask for the head of John the Baptist. 00:02:48.094 --> 00:02:51.904 So the girl hurried back to the king and told him, I want the head of 00:02:51.904 --> 00:02:54.334 John the Baptist right now on a tray. 00:02:55.774 --> 00:03:00.004 Then the king deeply regretted what he had said, but because of the 00:03:00.004 --> 00:03:03.424 vows he had made in front of his guests, he couldn't refuse her. 00:03:04.504 --> 00:03:08.074 So he immediately sent an executioner to the prison to cut 00:03:08.074 --> 00:03:10.264 off John's head and bring it to him. 00:03:11.314 --> 00:03:14.644 The soldier beheaded John in the prison, brought his head on 00:03:14.649 --> 00:03:16.744 a tray and gave it to the girl. 00:03:17.269 --> 00:03:18.379 Who took it to her mother. 00:03:19.729 --> 00:03:23.089 When John's disciples heard what had happened, they came to get 00:03:23.089 --> 00:03:25.639 his body and buried it in a tomb. 00:03:26.929 --> 00:03:31.099 The apostles returned to Jesus from their ministry tour and told 00:03:31.104 --> 00:03:32.809 him all they had done and taught. 00:03:33.649 --> 00:03:38.419 Then Jesus said, let's go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest a while. 00:03:39.379 --> 00:03:43.879 He said this because there were so many people coming and going that Jesus and 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:45.889 his apostles didn't even have time to eat. 00:03:46.864 --> 00:03:52.474 So they left by boat for a quiet place where they could be alone, but many people 00:03:52.474 --> 00:03:57.544 recognized them and saw them leaving, and people from many towns ran ahead along 00:03:57.544 --> 00:03:59.524 the shore and got there ahead of them. 00:04:00.394 --> 00:04:04.264 Jesus saw the huge crowd as he stepped from the boat, and he had 00:04:04.294 --> 00:04:08.014 compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. 00:04:09.184 --> 00:04:11.764 So he began teaching them many things. 00:04:13.129 --> 00:04:17.779 Late in the afternoon, his disciples came to him and said, this is a remote 00:04:17.779 --> 00:04:20.029 place and it's already getting late. 00:04:20.689 --> 00:04:23.959 Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:25.819 villages and buy something to eat. 00:04:27.049 --> 00:04:32.029 But Jesus said, you feed them with what they asked. 00:04:32.599 --> 00:04:35.269 We'd have to work for months to earn enough money to buy 00:04:35.269 --> 00:04:36.439 food for all these people. 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:38.509 How much bread do you have? 00:04:38.659 --> 00:04:39.199 He asked. 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:40.399 Go and find out. 00:04:41.659 --> 00:04:46.969 They came back and reported, we have five loaves of bread and two fish. 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:51.799 Then Jesus told the disciples to have the people sit down in groups 00:04:51.919 --> 00:04:56.719 on the green grass, so they sat down in groups of 50 or a hundred. 00:04:57.979 --> 00:05:03.319 Jesus took the five loaves and two fish looked up toward heaven and blessed them. 00:05:04.249 --> 00:05:06.739 Then breaking the loaves into pieces. 00:05:07.309 --> 00:05:11.629 He kept giving the bread to the disciples so they could distribute it to the people. 00:05:12.409 --> 00:05:15.259 He also divided the fish for everyone to share. 00:05:16.219 --> 00:05:21.169 They all ate as much as they wanted, and afterward the disciples 00:05:21.169 --> 00:05:26.749 picked up 12 baskets of leftover bread and fish, a total of 5,000 00:05:26.749 --> 00:05:29.059 men, and their families were fed. 00:05:30.784 --> 00:05:36.034 Immediately after this, Jesus insisted that his disciples get back into the boat 00:05:36.304 --> 00:05:38.224 and head across the lake to Beth Sayada. 00:05:38.974 --> 00:05:43.564 While he sent the people home after telling everyone goodbye, he went up 00:05:43.564 --> 00:05:45.784 into the hills by himself to pray. 00:05:47.134 --> 00:05:51.184 Late that night, the disciples were in their boat in the middle of the 00:05:51.189 --> 00:05:54.214 lake, and Jesus was alone on land. 00:05:55.249 --> 00:05:59.359 He saw that they were in serious trouble, rowing hard and struggling 00:05:59.359 --> 00:06:00.709 against the wind and waves. 00:06:01.549 --> 00:06:07.249 About three o'clock in the morning, Jesus came toward them walking on the water. 00:06:07.969 --> 00:06:13.279 He intended to go past them, but when they saw him walking on the water, they cried 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:15.769 out in terror thinking he was a ghost. 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:21.649 They were all terrified when they saw him, but Jesus spoke to them at once. 00:06:21.979 --> 00:06:23.599 Don't be afraid, he said. 00:06:24.139 --> 00:06:25.009 Take courage. 00:06:25.339 --> 00:06:26.269 I am here. 00:06:27.919 --> 00:06:31.219 Then he climbed into the boat and the wind stopped. 00:06:32.419 --> 00:06:36.889 They were totally amazed for, they still didn't understand the significance 00:06:36.894 --> 00:06:38.359 of the miracle of the loaves. 00:06:39.109 --> 00:06:41.329 Their hearts were too hard to take it in. 00:06:42.799 --> 00:06:46.999 After they had crossed the lake, they landed at, they brought the 00:06:46.999 --> 00:06:48.769 boat to shore and climbed out. 00:06:49.684 --> 00:06:53.464 The people recognized Jesus at once and they ran throughout the whole 00:06:53.464 --> 00:06:57.574 area, carrying sick people on mats to wherever they heard he was. 00:06:58.294 --> 00:07:02.734 Wherever he went in villages, cities, or the countryside. 00:07:03.364 --> 00:07:05.644 They brought the sick out to the marketplaces. 00:07:06.304 --> 00:07:11.014 They begged him to let the sick touch at least the fringe of his robe and 00:07:11.014 --> 00:07:13.384 all who touched him were healed. 00:07:15.244 --> 00:07:19.324 One day some Pharisees and teachers of religious law arrived 00:07:19.324 --> 00:07:21.244 from Jerusalem to see Jesus. 00:07:22.174 --> 00:07:25.924 They noticed that some of his disciples failed to follow the Jewish ritual 00:07:26.134 --> 00:07:27.934 of hand washing before eating. 00:07:28.864 --> 00:07:33.394 The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do not eat until they have poured 00:07:33.394 --> 00:07:37.504 water over their cupped hands as required by their ancient traditions. 00:07:38.194 --> 00:07:41.524 Similarly, they don't eat anything from the market until they 00:07:41.524 --> 00:07:42.874 immerse their hands in water. 00:07:43.624 --> 00:07:47.914 This is what one of many traditions they have clung to, such as their ceremonial 00:07:47.914 --> 00:07:50.344 washing of cups, pitchers, and kettles. 00:07:51.514 --> 00:07:56.344 So the Pharisees and teachers of religious law asked him, why don't 00:07:56.344 --> 00:08:01.264 your disciples follow our age-old tradition, they eat without first 00:08:01.264 --> 00:08:03.304 performing the hand washing ceremony. 00:08:04.174 --> 00:08:06.694 Jesus replied, you hypocrites. 00:08:07.354 --> 00:08:12.364 Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you for he wrote, These 00:08:12.364 --> 00:08:16.624 people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 00:08:17.284 --> 00:08:22.774 Their worship is a farce for they teach manmade ideas as commands 00:08:22.774 --> 00:08:28.684 from God for you, ignore God's law and substitute your own tradition. 00:08:30.124 --> 00:08:34.414 Then he said, you skillfully sidestep God's law in order to 00:08:34.414 --> 00:08:35.914 hold onto your own tradition. 00:08:36.619 --> 00:08:39.829 For instance, Moses gave you this law from God. 00:08:40.219 --> 00:08:45.289 Honor your father and mother, and anyone who speaks disrespectfully of 00:08:45.289 --> 00:08:47.689 father or mother must be put to death. 00:08:48.709 --> 00:08:53.089 But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents, sorry, I can't 00:08:53.089 --> 00:08:58.669 help you for, I have vowed to give to God what I would've given to you in this way. 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.189 You let them disregard their needy parents. 00:09:01.804 --> 00:09:07.744 And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition, and this 00:09:07.744 --> 00:09:10.054 is only one example among many others. 00:09:11.734 --> 00:09:15.664 Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear all of you. 00:09:15.754 --> 00:09:18.544 Listen, he said, and try to understand. 00:09:19.294 --> 00:09:22.534 It's not what goes into your body that defiles you. 00:09:23.224 --> 00:09:25.834 You are defiled by what comes from your heart. 00:09:27.349 --> 00:09:30.739 Then Jesus went into a house to get away from the crowd, and his 00:09:30.739 --> 00:09:34.099 disciples asked him what he meant by the parable he had just used. 00:09:35.539 --> 00:09:36.889 Don't you understand either? 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:42.319 He asked, can't you see that the food you put into your body cannot defile you? 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:47.599 Food doesn't go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach 00:09:47.659 --> 00:09:49.009 and then goes into the sewer. 00:09:50.629 --> 00:09:55.459 By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable 00:09:55.459 --> 00:10:01.489 in God's eyes, and then he added it is what comes from inside that 00:10:01.489 --> 00:10:07.879 defiles you for from within out of a person's heart come evil thoughts, 00:10:08.299 --> 00:10:11.689 sexual immorality, theft, murder. 00:10:12.094 --> 00:10:18.694 Adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful, desires, envy, 00:10:18.994 --> 00:10:22.294 slander, pride, and foolishness. 00:10:23.344 --> 00:10:25.504 All these vile things come from within. 00:10:26.134 --> 00:10:27.544 They are what defile you. 00:10:28.804 --> 00:10:32.884 Then Jesus left Galilee and went north to the region of tire. 00:10:33.814 --> 00:10:36.664 He didn't want anyone to know which house he was staying in, 00:10:37.114 --> 00:10:38.524 but he couldn't keep it a secret. 00:10:39.319 --> 00:10:40.009 Right away. 00:10:40.219 --> 00:10:43.069 A woman who had heard about him came and fell at his feet. 00:10:43.489 --> 00:10:47.239 Her little girl was possessed by an evil spirit, and she begged 00:10:47.239 --> 00:10:52.279 him to cast out the demon from her daughter since she was a gentile. 00:10:52.699 --> 00:10:57.709 Born in Syrian Venetia, Jesus told her first, I should feed the 00:10:57.709 --> 00:11:00.529 children my own family, the Jews. 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:04.939 It isn't right to take food from the children and throw it to the dogs. 00:11:06.109 --> 00:11:11.779 She replied, that's true, Lord, but even the dogs under the table are allowed to 00:11:11.779 --> 00:11:13.849 eat the scraps from the children's plates. 00:11:15.619 --> 00:11:16.399 Good answer. 00:11:16.579 --> 00:11:21.679 He said, now go home for the demon has left your daughter. 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:26.569 And when she arrived home, she found her little girl lying quietly 00:11:26.569 --> 00:11:29.539 in bed and the demon was gone. 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.819 Jesus left higher and went up to Sitan. 00:11:34.264 --> 00:11:39.814 Before going back to the Sea of Galilee and the region of the 10 towns, a deaf 00:11:39.814 --> 00:11:44.344 man with a speech impediment was brought to him, and the people begged Jesus to 00:11:44.344 --> 00:11:46.174 lay his hands on the man to heal him. 00:11:47.374 --> 00:11:50.374 Jesus led him away from the crowd so they could be alone. 00:11:51.094 --> 00:11:56.044 He put his fingers into the man's ears, then spitting on his own fingers. 00:11:56.314 --> 00:11:59.914 He touched the man's tongue, looking up to heaven. 00:11:59.914 --> 00:12:06.604 He sighed and said, Which means be opened instantly. 00:12:06.814 --> 00:12:10.624 The man could hear perfectly and his tongue was freed 00:12:10.714 --> 00:12:12.304 so he could speak plainly. 00:12:13.834 --> 00:12:20.044 Jesus told the crowd not to tell anyone, but the more he told them not to, the more 00:12:20.044 --> 00:12:25.264 they spread the news, they were completely amazed and said again and again. 00:12:25.624 --> 00:12:27.424 Everything he does is wonderful. 00:12:27.604 --> 00:12:32.104 He even makes the death to hear and gives speech to those who cannot speak. 00:12:33.784 --> 00:12:37.504 About this time, another large crowd had gathered and the 00:12:37.504 --> 00:12:39.154 people ran out of food again. 00:12:40.024 --> 00:12:44.014 Jesus called his disciples and told them, I feel sorry for these people. 00:12:44.254 --> 00:12:48.124 They have been here with me for three days and they have nothing left to eat. 00:12:48.574 --> 00:12:51.574 If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. 00:12:52.264 --> 00:12:56.794 For some of them have come a long distance, his disciples replied, how 00:12:56.794 --> 00:13:00.514 are we supposed to find enough food to feed them out here in the wilderness? 00:13:01.534 --> 00:13:03.964 Jesus asked, how much bread do you have? 00:13:04.894 --> 00:13:05.944 Seven loaves. 00:13:06.004 --> 00:13:06.664 They replied. 00:13:07.534 --> 00:13:10.204 So Jesus told all the people to sit down on the ground. 00:13:10.744 --> 00:13:15.634 Then he took the seven loaves, thanked God for them and broke them into pieces. 00:13:16.444 --> 00:13:19.894 He gave them to his disciples who distributed the bread to the crowd. 00:13:20.644 --> 00:13:25.564 A few small fish were found too, so Jesus also blessed these and told 00:13:25.564 --> 00:13:27.184 the disciples to distribute them. 00:13:28.324 --> 00:13:30.364 They ate as much as they wanted. 00:13:31.249 --> 00:13:35.629 Afterward, the disciples picked up seven large baskets of leftover food. 00:13:36.439 --> 00:13:40.489 There were about 4,000 men in the crowd that day, and Jesus sent 00:13:40.489 --> 00:13:42.139 them home after they had eaten. 00:13:43.609 --> 00:13:47.569 Immediately after this, he got into a boat with his disciples and 00:13:47.569 --> 00:13:49.699 crossed over to the region of Almaha. 00:13:51.409 --> 00:13:55.609 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had arrived, they came and started 00:13:55.609 --> 00:13:58.549 to argue with him testing him. 00:13:58.999 --> 00:14:01.609 They demanded that he show them a miraculous sign from 00:14:01.609 --> 00:14:03.649 heaven to prove his authority. 00:14:05.059 --> 00:14:10.939 When he heard this, he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, why do these 00:14:10.939 --> 00:14:13.309 people keep demanding a miraculous sign? 00:14:14.179 --> 00:14:15.289 I tell you the truth. 00:14:16.099 --> 00:14:18.799 I will not give this generation any such sign. 00:14:19.939 --> 00:14:24.019 So he got back into the boat and left them, and he crossed 00:14:24.019 --> 00:14:25.159 to the other side of the lake. 00:14:26.689 --> 00:14:29.359 But the disciples had forgotten to bring any food. 00:14:30.019 --> 00:14:33.379 They had only one loaf of bread with them in the boat as 00:14:33.379 --> 00:14:34.489 they were crossing the lake. 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:37.429 Jesus warned them, watch out. 00:14:38.029 --> 00:14:41.029 Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod. 00:14:42.529 --> 00:14:45.799 At this, they began to argue with each other because they 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:46.969 hadn't brought any bread. 00:14:48.109 --> 00:14:51.079 Jesus knew what they were saying, so he said, why are you 00:14:51.079 --> 00:14:52.759 arguing about having no bread? 00:14:53.704 --> 00:14:56.164 Don't you know or understand even yet. 00:14:56.794 --> 00:14:59.044 Are your hearts too hard to take it in? 00:15:00.154 --> 00:15:02.194 You have eyes, can't you see? 00:15:02.854 --> 00:15:04.894 You have ears, can't you hear? 00:15:05.884 --> 00:15:07.414 Don't you remember anything at all? 00:15:08.674 --> 00:15:12.664 When I fed the 5,000 with five loaves of bread, how many baskets of 00:15:12.664 --> 00:15:14.374 leftovers did you pick up afterward? 00:15:15.484 --> 00:15:16.684 12 they said. 00:15:17.374 --> 00:15:21.364 And when I fed the 4,000 with seven loaves, how many large baskets 00:15:21.369 --> 00:15:22.744 of leftovers did you pick up? 00:15:23.719 --> 00:15:24.259 Seven. 00:15:24.469 --> 00:15:27.949 They said, don't you understand yet? 00:15:28.189 --> 00:15:28.879 He asked them 00:15:31.099 --> 00:15:32.539 when they arrived at Beth Sayda. 00:15:32.959 --> 00:15:36.439 Some people brought a blind man to Jesus and they begged him 00:15:36.439 --> 00:15:37.939 to touch the man and heal him. 00:15:38.869 --> 00:15:42.409 Jesus took the blind man by the hand and let him out of the village. 00:15:43.069 --> 00:15:47.449 Then spitting on the man's eyes, he laid his hands on him and 00:15:47.449 --> 00:15:49.459 asked, can you see anything? 00:15:49.459 --> 00:15:51.979 Now the man looked around. 00:15:52.534 --> 00:15:53.044 Yes. 00:15:53.044 --> 00:15:56.314 He said, I see people, but I can't see them very clearly. 00:15:56.614 --> 00:15:58.444 They look like trees walking around. 00:15:59.644 --> 00:16:03.754 Then Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes again, and his eyes were opened. 00:16:04.234 --> 00:16:08.674 His sight was completely restored, and he could see everything clearly. 00:16:08.884 --> 00:16:13.864 Jesus sent him away saying, don't go back into the village. 00:16:13.954 --> 00:16:14.764 On your way home. 00:16:16.654 --> 00:16:19.834 Jesus and his disciples left Galilee and went up to the 00:16:19.834 --> 00:16:21.714 villages near Caesarea Philippi. 00:16:22.714 --> 00:16:26.584 As they were walking along, he asked them, who do people say I am? 00:16:27.664 --> 00:16:28.954 Well, they replied. 00:16:29.404 --> 00:16:30.814 Some say John the Baptist. 00:16:31.204 --> 00:16:35.074 Some say Elijah and others say You are one of the other prophets. 00:16:36.334 --> 00:16:38.884 Then he asked them, but who do you say I am? 00:16:39.114 --> 00:16:43.174 Peter replied, you are the Messiah. 00:16:44.614 --> 00:16:48.154 But Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him. 00:16:49.954 --> 00:16:52.834 This concludes today's Immerse Reading experience. 00:16:52.954 --> 00:16:54.184 Thank you for joining us.