Matthew 14:1-10

ECB(i) 1
YAHN THE BAPTIZER BEHEADED
At that season Herod the tetrarch hears of the fame of Yah Shua, 2 and says to his lads, This is Yahn the Baptizer; he is risen from the dead; and because of this, dynamis energizes in him. 3 For Herod had overpowered Yahn, and bound him, and put him in a guardhouse for sake of Herodias the woman of his brother Philippos: 4 for Yahn had worded to him, You are not allowed to have her! 5 - and he wills to slaughter him but he awes the multitude because they regard him as a prophet. 6 But the birthday of Herod is brought on; and the daughter of Herodias dances among them and pleases Herod: 7 whereupon he professes with an oath to give her whatever she asks. 8 And she, being previously instigated by her mother, Give me here, she says, the head of Yahn the Baptizer on a platter. 9 And the sovereign sorrows: nevertheless for sake of the oath and them who repose with him, he summons to give it to her: 10 and he sends and beheads Yahn in the guardhouse: