Mark 6:25

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

At once she hurried in to the king and said, “I would like you to give me the head of John the Immerser on a [large] platter right away.”

Cross References

Matthew 14:8

Her mother persuaded her to say, “Give me the head of John, the Immerser, here on this [large] platter.”

Matthew 3:1

(Thirty years later) In those days, John the Immerser went into the desert of Judea preaching [to Jews], saying,

Mark 6:24

So, she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” And her mother said, “[Ask for] the head of John the Immerser.”

Mark 6:26

And the king became very distressed [over such a gruesome request], but because he had promised her with oaths, and [to keep from looking bad] in front of his party guests, he did not refuse her [request].

Romans 3:15

[Isa. 59:7ff says], “Their feet [take them where they] are quick to commit murder.