“And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.”
Prompted by her mother, she said: give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter. The mother's promptingconnects the daughter's request to Herodias' ongoing vendetta against John. The here on a platter communicates the immediate and grotesque character of the demand: not merely the execution of John but the immediate delivery of the evidence. Herodias could not silence John through Herod's reluctant imprisonment; she uses the daughter's dance to achieve through manipulation what she could not obtain through direct request.
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