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and he sware to her -- `Whatever thou mayest ask me, I will give to thee -- unto the half of my kingdom.'
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And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;'
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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.'
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And the king -- made very sorrowful -- because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,
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and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought,
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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;
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and having heard, his disciples came and took up his corpse, and laid it in the tomb.
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And the apostles are gathered together unto Jesus, and they told him all, and how many things they did, and how many things they taught,
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and he said to them, `Come ye yourselves apart to a desert place, and rest a little,' for those coming and those going were many, and not even to eat had they opportunity,
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and they went away to a desert place, in the boat, by themselves.
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And the multitudes saw them going away, and many recognised him, and by land from all the cities they ran thither, and went before them, and came together to him,