Matthew 14:3-10

Bishops^{(i) 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 ⁹ And the kyng was sory: Neuerthelesse, for the othes sake, and them which sate also at the table, he commaunded it to be geuen her ¹⁰ And sent, and beheaded Iohn in the pryson