Mat 14:8 | MHM | STEP | v. 8 : And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger. The girl, following her mother Herodias’s instructions, asked for John the Baptist’s head on a plate. Herodias wanted John dead because he had spoken against her marriage to Herod (Matthew 14:8 ).

‏ Matthew 14:8

v. 8: And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger. The girl, following her mother Herodias’s instructions, asked for John the Baptist’s head on a plate. Herodias wanted John dead because he had spoken against her marriage to Herod (Matthew 14:8 ^a).