Matthew 14:1-8 ▼

1 At that tyme Herode the Tetrarch, hearde of the fame of Iesu.

2 And sayde vnto his seruauntes: this is Iohn the Baptist, he is risen from the dead, and therfore great workes do shewe foorth them selues in hym.

3 For Herode had taken Iohn, and bounde hym, and put hym in prison, for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wyfe.

4 For Iohn sayde vnto hym: it is not lawfull for thee to haue her.

5 And when he woulde haue put hym to death, he feared the people: because they counted hym as a prophete.

6 But when Herodes birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias daunsed before them, and pleased Herode.

7 Wherfore he promised with an othe, that he woulde geue her whatsoeuer she woulde aske.

8 And she, beyng instruct of her mother before, sayde: geue me here Iohn Baptistes head in a platter.