5 Bible Verses about Removing Heads

But she went out, and said to her mother: What shall I ask? She replied: The head of John the Immerser.

And she came in immediately, with haste, to the king, and made her request, saying: I desire that you give me, at once, in a dish, the head of John the Immerser.

And the king immediately sent one of his guards, and commanded his head to be brought.

And Herod said: John I have beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and the power of judging was given to them; and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God; and of those who had not worshiped the beast, nor his image, and had not received his mark on their forehead, nor on their hand: and they lived and reigned with Christ a thou sand years.