and brought his head on a dish and gave it to the young girl, who gave it to her mother.
So she, instigated by her mother, said, »Give me here on a dish the head of John the Baptist.«
He at once sent a soldier of his guard with orders to bring John's head. So he went and beheaded him in the prison,
When John's disciples heard of it, they came and took away his body and laid it in a tomb.