And she came in immediately with eagerness to the king, and asked, saying, I desire that thou wilt give me on the spot, in a charger, the head of John the Baptist.

and they will insult him, and scourge him, and spit upon him, and kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.

And some began to spit upon him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say to him, Prophesy: and the servants slapped him on the face with their hands.

And they struck him on the head with a cane, and spat upon him, and bowing their knees payed him homage.