WNT(i)
24 She at once went out and said to her mother: "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptizer," she replied.
25 The girl immediately came in, in haste, to the King and made her request. "My desire is," she said, "that you will give me, here and now, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist."
26 Then the King, though intensely sorry, yet for the sake of his oaths, and of his guests, would not break faith with her.
27 He at once sent a soldier of his guard with orders to bring John's head. So he went and beheaded him in the prison,