The daughter of Herodias went in and danced to them, and Herod and his guests were so delighted that the king said to the girl, "Ask anything you like and I will give you it."
However, on Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced in public to the delight of Herod;
'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not beat your breasts.'
For Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of his brother Philip,