She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”
Parallel Translations
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She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”
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And she wet forth and sayde to her mother: what shall I axe? And she sayde: Iohn Baptistes heed.
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So she went forth, and said to her mother, What shall I aske? And she said, Iohn Baptists head.
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Passages linked to Mark 6:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 27:8-11 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you. Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves. You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.” Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
- 2 Chronicles 22:3-4 He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
- Job 31:31 if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
- Ezekiel 19:2-3 and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs. She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
- Psalms 27:2 When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
- Psalms 37:12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
- Psalms 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.
- Proverbs 27:3-4 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
- Matthew 14:8 She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”
- Acts 23:12-13 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For women used not to sit at table with…
For women used not to sit at table with men.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 24 And she went forth, and said unto her…
24 And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
Ver. 24. And she went forth] The men and women dined not together. In Barbary, ‘tis death for any man to see one of the Zeriff’s concubines.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And she went forth and said unto her mother,....…
And she went forth and said unto her mother,.... The king having made such a promise to her, and annexed his oath to it, she thought proper before she asked any thing of him, to withdraw from the hall and company, and consider with herself, and consult with her mother, who was not at the entertainment; it being not usual in those eastern countries, for women to sit at table, at any grand festival: to whom she reported the offer the king had made, and desired she would be pleased to direct her, what request to make saying,
what shall I ask? To which her mother made answer, without taking any further time to think of it, being prepared for it, and determined in her mind, whenever she had an opportunity of asking a favour of the king, what it should be:
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and she said, the head of John the Baptist. So sweet is revenge, that to have her will on that great and good man, was more to her, than to have half the king's dominions.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. The head of John the Baptist] Herodias saw…
24. The head of John the Baptist] Herodias saw that her hour was come. No jewelled trinket, no royal palace, no splendid robe, should be the reward of her daughter’s feat—“Ask,” said she, “for the head of John the Baptizer.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) She went forth, and said unto her mother.—This…
(24) She went forth, and said unto her mother.—This feature in the narrative is peculiar to St. Mark.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And she went out, and said unto her mother,…
And she went out, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? (ti aithsomai) according to the best authorities (ti aithswmai), What should I ask?
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