8And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
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And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)We have here the story of John’s martyrdom. Observe, I. The occasion of relating this story here, Matt. 14:1 , 2 . Here is, 1. The account brought to Herod of the miracles which Christ wrought. Herod the tetrarch or chief governor of Galilee heard of the fame of Jesus . At that time, when his countrymen slighted him, upon the account of his meanness and obscurity, he began to be famous at court. N…
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