4. for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'
5. and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.
6. But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod,
7. whereupon with an oath he professed to give her whatever she might ask.
8. And she having been instigated by her mother--`Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;