^{7 Ref} Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she should ask.

^{8 Ref} And she, being put forward by her mother, saith, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.

^{9 Ref} And the king was grieved; but for the sake of his oaths, and of them that sat at meat with him, he commanded it to be given;