24. She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?”She said, “The head of John the Baptist.”
25. She came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter at once.”
26. The king was extremely sorrowful. Yet for the sake of his oath and those who sat with him, he would not reject her.
27. So the king immediately sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought. He went and beheaded him in the prison,
28. and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl. And the girl gave it to her mother.
29. When his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse and laid it in a tomb.
30. The apostles met with Jesus and told him everything, both what they had done and what they had taught.
31. Then He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a remote place and rest a while,” for many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.
32. So they went into a remote place privately by boat.
33. But the people saw them departing, and many knew Him and ran there on foot out of every city. They arrived first and came together to Him.
34. When Jesus came out and saw many people, He was moved with compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And He began to teach them many things.
35. When the day was now getting late, His disciples came to Him and said, “This is a remote place, and now the time is passing.
36. Send them away into the surrounding country and villages to buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.”
37. But He answered, “You give them something to eat.”They said to Him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”