Murdock(i)
2 and he said to his servants: This is John the Baptizer: he is risen from the grave: therefore works of power are wrought by him.
3 Now this Herod had seized John, and bound him and cast him into prison; on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.
4 For John had said to him: It is no lawful for her to be thy wife.
5 And he had wished to kill him; but he was afraid of the people, seeing that they regarded him as a prophet.
6 But when Herod's birthday festival occurred, the daughter of Herodias danced before the guests; and she pleased Herod.
7 Therefore he swore to her by an oath, that he would give her whatsoever she might ask.
8 And she, as she had been instructed by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptizer.
9 And it troubled the king: nevertheless, on account of the oath, and the guests, he commanded that it should be given her.
10 And he sent and cut off the head of John in the prison.
11 And the head was brought in a dish and given to the girl; and she brought it to her mother.
12 And his disciples came and bore away the corpse, and buried it; and they went and informed Jesus.
13 And Jesus, when he had heard it, retired alone, in a ship, to a desert place. And when the multitudes heard of it, they followed him by dry land from the cities.
14 And when Jesus disembarked, he saw great multitudes; and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick.