At that time: Herod sent and apprehended John, and bound him in prison for Herodias the wife of Philippe his brother, because he had married her. For John said to Herod: It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife, And Herodias lay in wait for him: and was desirous to kill him, and could not. For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a just and holy man: and he kept him, and by hearing him did many things: and he heard him gladly. And when a convenient day was fallen, Herod made the supper of his birth-day to the Princes, and the Tribunes, and the chief of Galilee. And when the daughter of the same Herodias came in, and had danced, and pleased Herod, and them that sat with him at the table, the king said to the damsel: Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee. And he sware to her: That whatsoever thou shalt ask I will give thee, though the half of my kingdom. Who when she was gone forth, said to her mother, what shall I ask? But she said: The head of John the Baptist. And when she was gone in by and by with haste to the king, she asketh saying: I will that forthwith thou give me in a platter the head of John the Baptist. And the king was stroken sad. Because of his oath and for them that sat together at table he would not displease her: but sending the hangman, commanded that his head should be brought in a platter. And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a platter: and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother. Which his Disciples hearing came, and took his body; and they put it in a monument.