Mark 6:16-31

¹⁶So when Herod heard it, he said, It is Iohn whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.

¹⁷For Herod him selfe had sent forth, and had taken Iohn, and bound him in prison for Herodias sake, which was his brother Philippes wife, because he had maried her.

¹⁸For Iohn sayd vnto Herod, It is not lawfull for thee to haue thy brothers wife.

¹⁹Therefore Herodias layd waite against him, and would haue killed him, but she could not:

²⁰For Herod feared Iohn, knowing that hee was a iust man, and an holy, and reuerenced him, and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

²¹But the time being conuenient, when Herod on his birth day made a banket to his princes and captaines, and chiefe estates of Galile:

²²And the daughter of the same Herodias came in, and daunced, and pleased Herod, and them that sate at table together, the King sayd vnto the mayde, Aske of me what thou wilt, and I will giue it thee.

²³And he sware vnto her, Whatsoeuer thou shalt aske of me, I will giue it thee, euen vnto the halfe of my kingdome.

²⁴So she went forth, and said to her mother, What shall I aske? And she said, Iohn Baptists head.

²⁵Then she came in straightway with haste vnto the King, and asked, saying, I would that thou shouldest giue me euen now in a charger the head of Iohn Baptist.

²⁶Then the King was very sory: yet for his othes sake, and for their sakes which sate at table with him, he would not refuse her.

²⁷And immediatly the King sent the hangman, and gaue charge that his head shoulde be brought in. So he went and beheaded him in the prison,

²⁸And brought his head in a charger, and gaue it to the maide, and the maide gaue it to her mother.

²⁹And when his disciples heard it, they came and tooke vp his body, and put it in a tombe.

³⁰And the Apostles gathered themselues together to Iesus, and tolde him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.

³¹And he sayd vnto them, Come ye apart into the wildernes, and rest a while: for there were many commers and goers, that they had not leasure to eate.