When Herod’s birthday celebration came, Herodias’s daughter danced before them[a] and pleased Herod. So he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked. Prompted by her mother, she answered, “Give me John the Baptist’s head here on a platter.”

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Footnotes

  1. 14:6 Lit danced in the middle

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