Mark 6:24-26

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁴ Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But she said: The head of John the Baptist.

²⁵ And when she was come in immediately with haste to the king, she asked, saying: I will that forthwith thou give me in a dish, the head of John the Baptist.

²⁶ And the king was struck sad. Yet because of his oath, and because of them that were with him at table, he would not displease her: