Mark 6:13-22

¹³and many demons they were casting out, and they were anointing with oil many infirm, and they were healing them.

¹⁴And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said — 'John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'

¹⁵Others said — 'It is Elijah,' and others said — 'It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.'

¹⁶And Herod having heard, said — 'He whom I did behead — John — this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

¹⁷For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

¹⁸for John said to Herod — 'It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

¹⁹and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,

²⁰for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly.

²¹And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee,

²²and the daughter of that Herodias having come in, and having danced, and having pleased Herod and those reclining (at meat) with him, the king said to the damsel, 'Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give to thee,'