Bishops(i)
3 For Herode had taken Iohn, and bounde hym, and put hym in prison, for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wyfe
4 For Iohn sayde vnto hym: it is not lawfull for thee to haue her
5 And when he woulde haue put hym to death, he feared the people: because they counted hym as a prophete
6 But when Herodes birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias daunsed before them, and pleased Herode
7 Wherfore he promised with an othe, that he woulde geue her whatsoeuer she woulde aske
8 And she, beyng instruct of her mother before, sayde: geue me here Iohn Baptistes head in a platter
9 And the kyng was sory: Neuerthelesse, for the othes sake, and them which sate also at the table, he commaunded it to be geuen her
10 And sent, and beheaded Iohn in the pryson
11 And his head was brought in a platter, and geuen to the damsell: and [she] brought it to her mother
12 And his disciples came, and toke vp his body, and buryed it: and went, and tolde Iesus