Mark 6:24

Then she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?”

“John the Baptist’s head!” she said.

Now obey every order I give you, my son.

He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother gave him evil advice.

Haven’t the members of my household said,
“Who is there who has not had enough to eat at Job’s table?”

When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh,
my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.

The wicked person schemes against the righteous
and gnashes his teeth at him.

The wicked have drawn the sword and strung the bow
to bring down the afflicted and needy
and to slaughter those whose way is upright.

A stone is heavy and sand, a burden,
but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.

and say:

What was your mother? A lioness!
She lay down among the lions;
she reared her cubs among the young lions.

And prompted by her mother, she answered, “Give me John the Baptist’s head here on a platter!”

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse: neither to eat nor to drink until they had killed Paul.

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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.