And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother. The grotesque delivery of John's head on the platter to the girl who requested it and from her to her mother communicates the moral degradation of the Herodian court: the murder of a prophet becomes a birthday present. The mother who received the head received her vengeance but not her vindication — John's message about the unlawfulness of her marriage was never answered, only silenced.

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