The Beheading of John the Baptist

The Beheading of John the Baptist

Inside a dungeon, a man is shackled
Where instruments are employed to inflict
Pain on him while being interrogated
To confess to crimes he did not commit.
Above, a damsel dances for Herod,
A gift of pleasure set by her mother.
In a stupor, he rewards Salome
With John the Baptist’s head on a charger.
Herodias’s revenge from a tyrant’s boast
Of lust for a child lives in infamy,
As John’s disciples mourn his headless corpse.
The living will demand answers from Christ
And seek forgiveness for their faults without works
And want acceptance into paradise.
                              ***

References:
Matthew 14:1-12.
Mark 6:14-29.
Luke 9:7-9.

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