Mark 6:21–28

²¹And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee, ²²and the daughter of that Herodias having come in, and having danced, and having pleased Herod and those reclining (at meat) with him, the king said to the damsel, ‘Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give to thee,’ ²³and he sware to her—‘Whatever thou mayest ask me, I will give to thee—unto the half of my kingdom.’ ²⁴And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, ‘What shall I ask for myself?’ and she said, ‘The head of John the Baptist;’ ²⁵and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, ‘I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.’ ²⁶And the king—made very sorrowful—because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away, ²⁷and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought, ²⁸and he having gone, beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head upon a plate, and did give it to the damsel, and the damsel did give it to her mother;