»Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you wash clean the outside of the cup or dish, while within they are full of greed and self-indulgence.«
So she, instigated by her mother, said, »Give me here on a dish the head of John the Baptist.«
Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.