14 Around that time, King Herod the Tetrach heard the news about Yeshua 2 and he said to his slaves, “This must be Yohan-the-Immerser having come back from the dead and so that’s why he can do all these miracles!”

3 [ref]Herod said this because he had previously had Yohan arrested and put in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. 4 Yohan had been saying that it was against God’s law for Herod to take his brother’s wife. 5 Herod had been wanting to have Yohan executed, but he was afraid of the crowd because they considered Yohan to be a prophet.

6 However at Herod’s birthday celebration, Herodias’ daughter had danced in the middle of them all and had pleased Herod so much 7 that he promised with an oath to give her anything that she requested.

8 The young woman was urged on by her mother to tell Herod that she wanted the head of Yohan-the-Immerser on a plate.

9 The king was upset, but because of his oaths in front of the other guests, he commanded it to be so 10 and sent his soldiers to behead Yohan in prison. 11 So then his head was brought in on a plate and given to the young woman who then took it to her mother. 12 Hearing the news, Yohan’s followers went to the prison and collected his body and buried it. Then they went and told Yeshua.