Mark 6:25-27

New International Version - UK

²⁵ At once the girl hurried in to the king with the request: ‘I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a dish.’

²⁶ The king was greatly distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her. ²⁷ So he immediately sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. The man went, beheaded John in the prison,