Matthew 14:8
And being previously instigated by her mother, she said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Immerser?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.
In Context
7Wherefore he promised, with an oath, to give her whatever she would ask.
Cross References
Mark 6:24But she went out, and said to her mother: What shall I ask? She replied: The head of John the Immerser.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 14:2-13
The Death of John the Baptist. 1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, 2 And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in him. 3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. 4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her. 5 And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a… Read the whole commentary →