26. Although the king was very sad, he had made a promise, and his dinner guests had heard it. So he did not want to refuse what she asked.
27. Immediately the king sent a soldier to bring John’s head. The soldier went and cut off John’s head in the prison
28. and brought it back on a platter. He gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.
29. When John’s followers heard this, they came and got John’s body and put it in a tomb.
30. The apostles gathered around Jesus and told him about all the things they had done and taught.
31. Crowds of people were coming and going so that Jesus and his followers did not even have time to eat. He said to them, “Come away by yourselves, and we will go to a lonely place to get some rest.”
32. So they went in a boat by themselves to a lonely place.