and brought it back on a platter. He gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.
The messenger came to Jehu and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” Then Jehu said, “Lay the heads in two piles at the city gate until morning.”
Herodias told her daughter what to ask for, so she said to Herod, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”
Immediately the king sent a soldier to bring John’s head. The soldier went and cut off John’s head in the prison
When John’s followers heard this, they came and got John’s body and put it in a tomb.