John Gill - Exposition
John Gill
Ver. 11 And his head was brought in a charger,.... By the executioner that cut it off, to Herod, whilst he and his guests were at table; by which it should seem, that the prison was very near; and it is not improbable, that it was the castle of Macheerus that Herod made this entertainment in: and given to the damsel; the daughter of Herodias, who, by her mother's instigation, had asked it, and...