Mark 6:24
Good News Translation
So the girl went out and asked her mother, "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptist," she answered.

New Revised Standard Version
She went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” She replied, “The head of John the baptizer.”

Contemporary English Version
The girl left and asked her mother, "What do you think I should ask for?" Her mother answered, "The head of John the Baptist!"

New American Bible
She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” She replied, “The head of John the Baptist.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But her mother said: The head of John the Baptist.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But her mother said: The head of John the Baptist.

said.

Genesis 27:8-11 Now therefore, my son, follow my counsel: . . .

2 Chronicles 22:3,4 He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly. . . .

Ezekiel 19:2,3 And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions? . . .

Matthew 14:8 But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist.

The head.

Job 31:31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

Psalm 27:2 Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

Psalm 37:12,14 The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth. . . .

Proverbs 27:3,4 A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both. . . .

Acts 23:12,13 And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they killed Paul. . . .

Context
The Beheading of John
23And he swore to her: Whatsoever thou shalt ask I will give thee, though it be the half of my kingdom. 24Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But her mother said: The head of John the Baptist. 25And when she was come in immediately with haste to the king, she asked, saying: I will that forthwith thou give me in a dish, the head of John the Baptist.…
Cross References
Matthew 3:1
And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.

Mark 6:23
And he swore to her: Whatsoever thou shalt ask I will give thee, though it be the half of my kingdom.

Mark 6:25
And when she was come in immediately with haste to the king, she asked, saying: I will that forthwith thou give me in a dish, the head of John the Baptist.

Mark 6:23
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