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And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.

But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.

And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.