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 therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you.

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.

and say: What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she crouched; in the midst of young lions she reared her cubs.

Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter."

if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?'

When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.

The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him,

A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.