¹⁷ This word about him spread throughout the whole of Judea and all the surrounding region.

¹⁴ Then he came forward and touched the bier, and the bearers stopped. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, rise!”^(A)

The Death of John the Baptist

¹⁴ King Herod heard of it, for Jesus’s^[a] name had become known. Some were^[b] saying, “John the baptizer has been raised from the dead, and for this reason these powers are at work in him.”

²⁸ At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.

³¹ But they went away and spread the news about him through all of that district.^(A)

²⁶ And the report of this spread through all of that district.

²⁴ So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought to him all the sick, those who were afflicted with various diseases and pains, people possessed by demons or having epilepsy or afflicted with paralysis, and he cured them.^(A)