Matthew 14:8

And she before-warned of her mother, said, [or And she before-admonished of her mother, saith], (or And having earlier been admonished by her mother, she answered), Give thou to me here the head of John (the) Baptist in a dish.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 with an oath he promised to give to her, whatever thing she asked of him.

9And the king was sorrowful, but for the oath, and for them that sat together at the meat, (or but because of his promise, or his oath, and because of those who sat together with him at the meal), he commanded (it) to be given (to her).

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Cross References

Numbers 7:19a silver vessel to prove incense and such things, weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver basin, having seventy shekels by the weight of the saintuary, ever either full of [tried] flour sprinkled (al)together with oil, into sacrifice; (a silver vessel, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and a silver basin, weighing seventy shekels, by the measure of the sanctuary, and each full of fine flour sprinkled with oil, for a grain offering;)

1 Kings 18:4For when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took an hundred prophets, and hid them, by fifties and fifties, in dens, (or and hid them in caves, fifty by fifty), and fed them with bread and water.

1 Kings 19:2And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, and said, Gods do these things to me (or The gods do these things to me), and add these things too, no but tomorrow in this hour I shall put thy life as the life of one of them.

2 Chronicles 22:2Ahaziah was of two and forty years (or Ahaziah was twenty-two years old), when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem; the name of his mother was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri.

Proverbs 1:16For the feet of them run to evil; and they hasten to shed out blood.

Mark 6:24And when she had gone out, she said to her mother, What shall I ask (for)? And 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 →

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