006:021 At length Herodias found her opportunity. Herod on his birthday
gave a banquet to the nobles of his court and to the tribunes
and the principal people in Galilee,
006:022 at which Herodias's own daughter came in and danced,
and so charmed Herod and his guests that he said to her,
"Ask me for anything you please, and I will give it to you."
006:023 He even swore to her, "Whatever you ask me for I will give you,
up to half my kingdom."
006:024 She at once went out and said to her mother: "What shall I ask for?"
"The head of John the Baptizer," she replied.
006:025 The girl immediately came in, in haste, to the King and made
her request. "My desire is," she said, "that you will give me,
here and now, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist."
006:026 Then the King, though intensely sorry, yet for the sake of his oaths,
and of his guests, would not break faith with her.
006:027 He at once sent a soldier of his guard with orders to bring
John's head. So he went and beheaded him in the prison,
006:028 and brought his head on a dish and gave it to the young girl,
who gave it to her mother.
006:029 When John's disciples heard of it, they came and took away
his body and laid it in a tomb.
006:030 When the Apostles had re-assembled round Jesus, they reported
to Him all they had done and all they had taught.
006:031 Then He said to them, "Come away, all of you, to a quiet place,
and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going,
so that they had no time even for meals.
006:032 Accordingly they sailed away in the boat to a solitary place apart.
006:033 But the people saw them going, and many knew them; and coming
by land they ran together there from all the neighbouring towns,
and arrived before them.