Devine Scripture

Matthew 14:8

Matthew chapter 14 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And she, being put forward by her mother, saith, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And she, being put forward by her mother, saith, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.

Context

v.7Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she should ask.

v.8This passage

v.9And the king was grieved; but for the sake of his oaths, and of them that sat at meat with him, he commanded it to be given;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Kings 18:4

    for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

  • 1 Kings 19:2

    Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time.

  • Proverbs 29:10

    The bloodthirsty hate him that is perfect; And as for the upright, they seek his life.

  • Ezra 1:9

    And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver, nine and twenty knives,

  • 1 Kings 18:13

    Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of Jehovah, how I hid a hundred men of Jehovah’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

  • Proverbs 1:16

    For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.