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21 At length Herodias found her opportunity. Herod on his birthday gave a banquet to the nobles of his court and to the tribunes and the principal people in Galilee, 22 at which Herodias's own daughter came in and danced, and so charmed Herod and his guests that he said to her, "Ask me for anything you please, and I will give it to you." 23 He even swore to her, "Whatever you ask me for I will give you, up to half my kingdom." 24 She at once went out and said to her mother: "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptizer," she replied. 25 The girl immediately came in, in haste, to the King and made her request. "My desire is," she said, "that you will give me, here and now, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist." 26 Then the King, though intensely sorry, yet for the sake of his oaths, and of his guests, would not break faith with her. 27 He at once sent a soldier of his guard with orders to bring John's head. So he went and beheaded him in the prison, 28 and brought his head on a dish and gave it to the young girl, who gave it to her mother. Mark 6:21-28, Weymouth New Testament. Public domain.
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