and brought his head on a [large] platter and gave it to the young woman. She [in turn] gave it to her mother [Herodias].
Her mother persuaded her to say, “Give me the head of John, the Immerser, here on this [large] platter.”
And immediately the king sent a soldier who served as his guard and ordered him to bring John’s head to him. So, he went and decapitated him in the prison,
And when John’s disciples heard [what had happened] they took his body and buried it in a grave.