Verse Lens · Context pointer
Matthew 14:8 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 8. 8And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.
King James Version — public domain in the United States · Bible text and permissions
Role in This Section
Shows her instructed by her mother to request John's head on a platter.
Read It With
- Matthew 14:1–14:12
Matthew 14:8 shows her instructed by her mother to request John's head on a platter; within Matthew 14:1–14:12, it contributes to this controlling movement: Herod hears of Jesus, recalls imprisoning John over Herodias, makes a rash public promise after a dance, orders John's beheading, and gives the body for burial by disciples.
Why It Needs Context
Shows her instructed by her mother to request John's head on a platter. Its responsible force depends on Matthew 14:1–14:12; it supplies genealogy, sequence, quotation, dialogue, image, response, or transition rather than a complete standalone teaching.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Matthew 14:1–14:12 — Herod kills John after a manipulated banquet oathSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Matthew 14:1–14:12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control without treating one edition as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file data/sblgnt/text/Matt.txt, Matthew 14:1–14:12
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