Matthew 14:8
But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
7Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she would ask of him.
Cross References
Numbers 7:19The second day Nathanael the son of Suar, prince of the tribe of Issachar, made his offering,
1 Kings 18:4For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water.
1 Kings 19:2And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to morrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.
2 Chronicles 22:2Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri.
Proverbs 1:16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Mark 6:24Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But she said: The head of John the Baptist.
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 →