Prompted by her mother, the girl said 'Give me here, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist.'

And his head was brought on a dish and given to the girl, and she took it to her mother.

Let them be; they are but blind guides; and, if one blind man guides another, both of them will fall into a ditch."

Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with the results of greed and self-indulgence.

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.

"The one who dipped his bread beside me in the dish," replied Jesus, "is the one who will betray me.

So she went in as quickly as possible to the King, and made her request. 'I want you,' she said, 'to give me at once, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist.'

And, bringing his head on a dish, gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

"It is one of you Twelve," said Jesus, "the one who is dipping his bread beside me into the dish.

Then, speaking in parables, Jesus said: "Can one blind man guide another? Will they not both fall into a ditch?

"It is the one," answered Jesus, "to whom I shall give a piece of bread after dipping it in the dish." And, when Jesus had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot;