and he said to his servants, (A)“This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.” For (B)Herod had seized John and bound him and (C)put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,[a] because John had been saying to him, (D)“It is not lawful for you to have her.” And though he wanted to put him to death, (E)he feared the people, because they held him to be (F)a prophet.

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  1. Matthew 14:3 Some manuscripts his brother's wife

and he said to his attendants, “This is John the Baptist;(A) he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison(B) because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,(C) for John had been saying to him: “It is not lawful for you to have her.”(D) Herod wanted to kill John, but he was afraid of the people, because they considered John a prophet.(E)

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