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2 & sayde vnto his seruauntes: this is Iohn the Baptist. He is rysen from the deed, & therfore are miracles wrought by him.
3 For Herode had taken Iohn, & bound him, & put him in preson because of Herodias, his brother Philips wyfe.
4 For Iohn sayd vnto him: it is not lawfull for thou to haue her.
5 And when he wolde haue put hym to deeth, he feared the people, because they counted him as a prophet.
6 But when Herodes byrth daye was kepte, the daughter of Herodias daunsed before them, & pleased Herode.
7 Wherfore he promysed with an othe, that he wolde geue her whatsoeuer she wolde aske.
8 And she beynge instructe of her mother before, sayde: geue me here Iohn Baptistes heed in a platter.
9 And the kynge was sory. Neuerthelesse, for the othes sake, & them which sate also at the table, he commaunded it to be geuen her:
10 & sent tourmentours, & behedded Iohn in the preson
11 and his heed was brought in a platter & geuen to that damsell, and she brought it to her mother.
12 And his disciples came & toke vp hys body, and buried it: went, and tolde Iesus.
13 When Iesus hearde of it, he departed thence in a shyppe vnto a desert place, out of the waye. And when the people had harde therof, they folowed him on fote and left the cyties.
14 And Iesus went forth, & sawe moch people, and was moued with mercy toward them, and he healed of them those that were sycke.