20 For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man, and an holy, and reverenced him, and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him [a]gladly.

21 But the time being convenient, when Herod on his birthday made a banquet to his princes and captains, and chief estates of Galilee:

22 And the daughter [b]of the same Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod, and them that sat at table together, the King said unto the maid, Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 6:20 The tyrant was very well content to hear sentence pronounced against him, but the seed fell upon stony places.
  2. Mark 6:22 Which the same Herodias had not by Herod Antipas, but by Philip, and Josephus calleth her Salome.

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