Matthew 14:6
But on Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before them: and pleased Herod.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Die autem natalis Herodis saltavit filia Herodiadis in medio, et placuit Herodi :
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- γενεσίοις δὲ γενομένοις τοῦ Ἡρῴδου ὠρχήσατο ἡ θυγάτηρ τῆς Ἡρῳδιάδος ἐν τῷ μέσῳ καὶ ἤρεσεν τῷ Ἡρῴδῃ,
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine The Harmony of the Gospels, Of the Order in Which the Accounts of John’s Imprisonment and Death are Given by These Three Evangelists
92. Matthew then proceeds with his narrative in the following terms: “For Herod laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother’s wife;” and so on, down to the words, “And his disciples came and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.” Mark gives this narrative in similar terms. Luke, on the other hand, does not relate it in the same succession, but introduces it in connection with his statement of the baptism wherewith the Lord was baptized. Hence we are to understand him to have acted by anticipation here, and to have taken the opportunity of recording at this point an event which took place actually a considerable period later. …