Mark 6:24

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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.

Now, my son, do what I say.

He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

And she, at her mother's suggestion, said, Give me here on a plate the head of John the Baptist.

If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.