Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Give me here John Baptist' s head in a charger - The word charger formerly signified a large dish, bowl, or drinking cup: the Saxon has a dish , Tindal, a platter ; any thing is better than charger, which never conveyed much meaning, and now conveys none. The evangelist says she was instructed before, by her mother, to ask the Baptist' s head! What a most infernal mother, to give such instructions to her child! and what a promising daughter to receive them! What a present for a young lady! - the bloody head of the murdered forerunner of Jesus! and what a gratification for an adulterous wife, and incestuous mother! The disturber of her illicit pleasures, and the troubler of her brother-husband' s conscience, is no more! Short, however, was their glorying! See on Matthew 14:3 (note).
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Matthew 14:8:
Mark 6:19
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