Matthew 14:11

‘And his head was brought on a large dish, and given to the damsel, and she brought it to her mother.'

Then John's head was placed on a large serving dish, and ceremoniously handed over to the waiting teenage slut, who took it in to her mother. So hardened were they both that this grisly behaviour seems not to have worried them a jot. There appears to have been no hesitation on Salome's part.

The presenting of John's head on a meat dish, coming as it does before the feeding of the five thousand, may well have been meant by Matthew to be seen as in direct contrast. The ungodly partake of the blood of the prophets (Matthew 23:30). The righteous partake of the food of God, (and spiritually of the body and blood of Christ - John 6:53).