Matthew 14:1-13 ▼

1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the fame of Jesus,

2 and said to his servants, This is John the baptist, he is certainly risen from the dead, and therefore miraculous things are done by him:

3 for Herod had apprehended John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife;

4 for John said to Him, It is not lawful for thee to have her: and he would have put him to death,

5 but that he was afraid of the people; for they esteemed him as a prophet.

6 But when Herod's birth-day was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod, so

7 that he promised her with an oath to give her whatever she would ask:

8 and she, being before instructed by her mother, said, Give me here in a dish the head of John the baptist:

9 at which the king was distressed, but because of his oath, and of those who sat at table with him, he ordered it to be given her;

10 and he sent and beheaded John in the prison,

11 and his head was brought in a dish, and given to the young princess, who carried it to her mother:

12 and his disciples came and took up the body and buried it, and then went and told Jesus.

13 And when Jesus heard it, He departed from thence in a ship to a solitary place of retirement: but the people hearing where He was followed Him on foot from the cities: