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.

And now my son, hear to my voice, according to that I command thee.

Also he went in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was counseling him to do evil.

And say, What thy mother? a lioness: between lions she lay down, in the midst of young lions she brought up her whelps

And having been urged on by her mother, Give me, she says, here upon a board, the head of John the Baptist.

If the men of my tent said not, Who will give from his flesh? We shall not be satisfied.

In the drawing near of those doing evil to me, to eat my flesh, adversaries and enemies to me, they were weak and fell

The unjust one meditated against the just, and gnashed upon him with his teeth.

A stone is heavy and sand a burden, and the wrath of the foolish one heavy more than they two.

And it being day, certain of the Jews having made a condition, anathematized themselves, saying, neither to eat or drink till they kill Paul.