Mark 6:28

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl. Then the girl gave it to her mother.

Cross References

2 Samuel 4:7

Now they had come into the house while he was lying on his couch in his bedchamber; they attacked him, killed him, and beheaded him. Then they took his head and traveled by way of the Arabah all night long.

2 Kings 10:8

When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”

Matthew 14:8

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

Mark 6:27

Immediately the king sent a soldier of the guard with orders to bring John’s head. He went and beheaded him in the prison,

Mark 6:29

When his disciples heard about it, they came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.