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Yes King herod had a dancer , who asked for John the baptist head on a platter.
BEHEAD
Herodias hated John the baptist. when her daughter did a dance for king Herod he was so delighted that he told her to ask for anything and she would get it. She then asked her mother what to ask for. The mother said ask for Johns head on a silver plate. So John was beheaded , and the head was brought on a plate.
It was Herodotus, he rods daughter under orders from her mother who wanted John the baptist killed.
There is a St. John the Baptist but no St. John Paul the Baptist.
Herod the tetrarch. He promised the daughter of Herodias with an oath to give her anything she wanted after she had danced for him. She asked for John the Baptist's head in a charger(serving platter) which she got. Matthew 14:3-11
John the Baptist was never married.
Actually nobody did baptize John the Baptist.
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John the baptist then they are cousins.
He wasn't. His cousin, John, was. Or maybe you mean why was he baptised. He was because he wanted to be on a good start. (Jesus not god.)