Matthew 14:1-13 ▼

1 At that tyme Herod the tetrarcha hearde of the fame of Iesu

2 and sayde vnto his servautes: This is Ihon ye baptist. He is risen agayne from deeth and therfore are soche myracles wrought by him.

3 For Herod had taken Ihon and bounde him and put him in preson fo r Herodias sake his brother Philips wyfe.

4 For Ihon sayde vnto him: Yt is not lawfull for the to have her.

5 And when he wold have put him to deeth he feared the people because they counted him as a prophet.

6 But when Herodes birth daye was come the doughter of Herodias daunsed before them and pleased Herod.

7 Wherfore he promised wt an oth that he wolde geve hir whatsoever she wolde axe.

8 And she beinge informed of her mother before sayde: geve me here Ihon baptistes heed in a platter.

9 And ye kynge sorowed. Neverthelesse for his othes sake and for their sakis which sate also at ye table he comaunded yt to be geven hir:

10 and sent and beheeded Ihon in the preson

11 and his heed was brought in a platter and geven to the damsell and she brought it to her mother.

12 And his disciples came and toke vp his body and buryed it: and went and tolde Iesus.

13 When Iesus hearde that he departed thence by shippe in to a desert place out of ye waye. And when the people had hearde therof they folowed him afote out of their cities.