Bible Verses About Murder: Herodias and her daughter

And she having been instigated by her mother--`Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;

and the king was grieved, but because of the oaths and of those reclining with him, he commanded it to be given;

and having sent, he beheaded John in the prison,

and his head was brought upon a plate, and was given to the damsel, and she brought it nigh to her mother.