'Plate' in the Bible
And she having been instigated by her mother -- 'Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;
and his head was brought upon a plate, and was given to the damsel, and she brought it nigh to her mother.
"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but on the inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
'Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean.
And he made answer and said, He who puts his hand into the plate with me, the same will be false to me.
and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, 'I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.'
and he having gone, beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head upon a plate, and did give it to the damsel, and the damsel did give it to her mother;
And he said to them, It is one of the twelve, one who is putting his bread with me into the same plate.
And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;
And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.