For again, John rebuked vice, and was a zealous man, and a hermit like Elias; but they heard him not, as they will hear Elias, but killed him in wicked sport, and cut off his head.
Wherefore there follows, “And they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.”
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).