The guard put the head on a serving plate and took it to the girl. Then she gave it to her mother.
But the girl's mother told her to say, “Here on a serving plate I want the head of John the Baptist!”
At once he ordered a guard to cut off John's head there in prison.
When John's followers learned that he had been killed, they took his body and put it in a tomb.
When Jehu was told what had happened, he said, “Put the heads in two piles at the city gate, and leave them there until morning.”