Mark 6:26 YLT

²⁴  And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, 'What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, 'The head of John the Baptist;'

²⁵  and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, 'I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.'

²⁶  And the king -- made very sorrowful -- because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,

²⁷  and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought,

²⁸  and he having gone, beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head upon a plate, and did give it to the damsel, and the damsel did give it to her mother;