Mark 6:24

New American Bible - revised edition

She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” She replied, “The head of John the Baptist.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:5

Then Jonadab replied, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to visit you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and encourage me to take food. If she prepares something in my presence, for me to see, I will eat it from her hand.’”

Job 31:31

Had not the men of my tent exclaimed, “Who has not been filled with his meat!”

Psalm 27:2

When evildoers come at me to devour my flesh, These my enemies and foes themselves stumble and fall.

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them;

Psalm 37:14

The wicked unsheath their swords; they string their bows To fell the poor and oppressed, to slaughter those whose way is upright.

Matthew 14:8

Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”

Matthew 3:1

In those days John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea

Mark 6:23

He even swore [many things] to her, “I will grant you whatever you ask of me, even to half of my kingdom.”

Mark 6:25

The girl hurried back to the king’s presence and made her request, “I want you to give me at once on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”