Mark 6:15-30

¹⁵Others said, That it is Elijah; but others said, That it is a prophet, as one of the prophets.

¹⁶And when this thing was heard, Herod said, This is John, whom I have beheaded, he is risen again from death.

¹⁷For that Herod sent, and held John, and bound him into prison, for Herodias, the wife of Philip, his brother; for he had wedded her.

¹⁸For John said to Herod, It is not leaveful to thee, to have the wife of thy brother.

¹⁹And Herodias laid ambush to him, and would slay him, and might not.

²⁰And Herod dreaded John, and knew him a just man and holy, and kept him. And Herod heard him, and he did many things, and gladly heard him.

²¹And when a covenable day was fallen, Herod in his birthday made a supper to the princes, and tribunes, and to the greatest of Galilee.

²²And when the daughter of that Herodias was come in, and danced, and pleased to Herod or and pleased Herod, and also to men that sat at the meat, the king said to the damsel, Ask thou of me what thou wilt, and I shall give to thee.

²³And he swore to her, That what-ever thou ask, I shall give to thee, though it be half of my kingdom.

²⁴And when she had gone out, she said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

²⁵And when she was come in anon with haste to the king, she asked, and said, I will that anon, thou give to me in a dish the head of John Baptist.

²⁶And the king was sorry or sorrowful for the oath, and for men that sat together at the meat, he would not make her sorry or heavy;

²⁷but he sent a man-queller and commanded, that John’s head were brought in a dish. And he beheaded him in the prison,

²⁸and brought his head in a dish, and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother.

²⁹And when this thing was heard, his disciples came, and took his body, and laid it in a burial.

³⁰And the apostles came together to Jesus, and told to him all things, that they had done, and taught.