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And she went forth, and said vnto her mother, What shall I aske? And she said, The head of Iohn y e Baptist.

And she came in straightway with haste, vnto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou giue me by and by in a charger, the head of Iohn the Baptist.

And immediatly the king sent an executioner, and commaunded his head to be brought, and he went, and beheaded him in the prison,

1611 marginal noteOr, one of his guard.

And brought his head in a charger, and gaue it to the damosell, and the damosell gaue it to her mother.

And againe, hee sent vnto them another seruant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.

And haue ye not read this Scripture? The stone which the builders reiected, is become the head of the corner:

1611 marginal notePsal. 118.10.

¶ And being in Bethanie, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at meat, there came a woman, hauing an Alabaster boxe of oyntment of spikenard very precious, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.

1611 marginal noteOr, pure nard: or liquid nard.

1611 marginal noteMat. 26.6

And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crowne of thornes, and put it about his head,

And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit vpon him, and bowing their knees, worshipped him.