24Then she went out and asked her mother, “What should I request?” And her mother answered, “The head of John the Baptist.”
25At once the girl hurried back to the king with her request: “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”
26The king was consumed with sorrow, but because of his oaths and his guests, he did not want to refuse her.
— Mark 6:24-26

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