The daughter of Herodias herself (της θυγατρος αυτης Hηρωιδιαδος). Genitive absolute again. Some ancient manuscripts read αυτου (h…

Theophylact of Ohrid: The Evangelist Mark, taking his cue from what came before, here relates the death of the Forerunner, s…

Herodias finally got the opportunity she was waiting for. At a banquet for Herod’s birthday, attended by military and political leaders, Herodias’s…

And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in
To the hall, where Herod and his guests were, after supper was ov…

Herod feared John while he lived, and feared him still more when he was dead. Herod did many of those things which John in his preaching taught him…