Coverdale(i)
3 For Herode had take Iho bounde hi, & put him in preson for Herodias sake his brothers Philips wife.
4 For Ihon sayde vnto him: It is not laufull for ye to haue her.
5 And fayne wolde he haue put him to death, but he feared the people, because they helde him for a Prophet.
6 But whan Herode helde his byrth daye, the doughter of Herodias daunsed before the, and that pleased Herode well,
7 wherfore he promysed her with an ooth, yt he wolde geue her, what soeuer she wolde axe.
8 And she (beynge instructe of hir mother afore) sayde: geue me Ihon baptistes heade in a platter.
9 And the kynge was sory. Neuertheles for ye ooth sake, & the yt sat with him at ye table, he comaunded it to be geuen her,
10 and sent, & beheeded Ihon in the preson.