^{25 Ref} and 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.'

^{26 Ref} And the king -- made very sorrowful -- because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,

^{27 Ref} and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought,

²⁸ and 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;