John the Baptist Prays in Prison Just Before His Beheading
“And she, being put forward by her mother, saith, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist. And 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; and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.” Matthew 14:8-10 ASV
Illustration of John the Baptist, having just been unshackled, kneeling in prayer while a soldier waits to behead him with an axe. . A shaft of light beams down on John. Salome can be seen just outside the archway with a platter in her hands.
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dance, mother, axe, pray, prayer, baptism, baptize, behead, solider, Platter, Baptist, decapitate, John the Baptist, faith, Herod, Herod Antipas, Salome, head on a plate, step-motherSource
Right Rev. Richard Gilmour, D.D. Bible History: Containing the Most Remarkable Events of the Old and New Testaments, with a Compendium of Church History (New York, New York: Benziger Brothers, 1904) 165
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