For Herod his sel had sent oot, and laid haud oʼ John, and putten him in prison, for the sake oʼ Herodias, his brother Philipʼs wife; for he had marryʼt her.
And the dochter oʼ this vera Herodias cam in and danced, she sae took wiʼ Herod and them feastin wiʼ him, that the King said to the wench, “Demand oʼ me what ye wull, and Iʼll gie ye!”
Noo, iʼ the fifteenth year oʼ the rule oʼ Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate bein Governor oʼ Judea, and Herod Tetrarch oʼ Galilee; Philip, his brither, bein Tetrarch oʼ the kintra oʼ Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanius Tetrarch oʼ Abilene,
“For oʼ a truth they war gaitherʼt in this citie, again thy Holy Ane Jesus, that thou did anoint, baith Herod and Pontius Pilate, wiʼ Gentiles and folk oʼ Israʼl,