24And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?` and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;`
25and 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.`
26And the king -- made very sorrowful -- because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,
27and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought,
28and 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;
29and having heard, his disciples came and took up his corpse, and laid it in the tomb.
30And the apostles are gathered together unto Jesus, and they told him all, and how many things they did, and how many things they taught,
