Notes on The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
6:20 And kept him: That is, from the designs of Herodias; and for fear of the people, would not put him to death, though she sought it; and through her daughter she effected her wish.
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