24. And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;'
25. and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, `I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.'
26. And the king--made very sorrowful--because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,
27. and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought,
28. and he having gone, beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head upon a plate, and did give it to the damsel, and the damsel did give it to her mother;
29. and having heard, his disciples came and took up his corpse, and laid it in the tomb.