1. At that season Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,
2. and said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore do these powers work in him.
3. For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
4. For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
5. And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
6. But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod.
7. Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she should ask.
8. And she, being put forward by her mother, saith, Give me here in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
9. And the king was grieved; but for the sake of his oaths, and of them which sat at meat with him, he commanded it to be given;