Mat 14:10. Ἀπεκεφάλισε, he beheaded) Even this kind of death was a proof that John was not the Messiah: cf. Joh 19:36.[666]-Ἰωάννην, John) a sudden and violent death, even by decapitation, is not always miserable.
[666] It was not fitting, to wit, that even a bone of Christ’s body should be broken, much less His head taken off.-V. g.