22. When Herodias’s own daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I’ll give it to you.”
23. So he swore oaths to her: “Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”
24. Then she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for? ”“John the Baptist’s head! ” she said.