And, bringing his head on a dish, gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.
Prompted by her mother, the girl said 'Give me here, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist.'
He immediately dispatched one of his bodyguard, with orders to bring John's head. The man went and beheaded John in the prison,
When John's disciples heard of it, they came and took his body away, and laid it in a tomb.