Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

Now it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; and as they went His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain.

For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.

So she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist!”

Immediately she came in with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in prison,

brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

Again he sent them another servant, and at him they threw stones, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.

The Anointing at Bethany

And being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured it on His head.

And they clothed Him with purple; and they twisted a crown of thorns, put it on His head,

Then they struck Him on the head with a reed and spat on Him; and bowing the knee, they worshiped Him.

And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who destroy the temple and build it in three days,