and said to his servants, “This man is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at work in him.” The Death of John the Baptist.
Meanwhile, so many people were crowding together that they were trampling one another underfoot. He began to speak, first to his disciples, “Beware of the leaven—that is, the hypocrisy—of the Pharisees. Courage Under Persecution.