Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

St Mark 6:27-39 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

27. But sending an executioner, he commanded that his head should be brought in a dish.

28. And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish: and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother.

29. Which his disciples hearing came, and took his body, and laid it in a tomb.

30. And the apostles coming together unto Jesus, related to him all things that they had done and taught.

31. And he said to them: Come apart into a desert place, and rest a little. For there were many coming and going: and they had not so much as time to eat.

32. And going up into a ship, they went into a desert place apart.

33. And they saw them going away, and many knew: and they ran flocking thither on foot from all the cities, and were there before them.

34. And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

35. And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past:

36. Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they may buy themselves meat to eat.

37. And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give them to eat.

38. And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes

39. And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass.