For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him and put him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.

Herodias felt bitterly toward him and wanted him killed. But she could not bring it about,

Herodias' own daughter came in and danced for them. And Herod and his guests were delighted, and the king said to the girl,