Mark 6:16-18

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¹⁶ “No,” said Herod when he heard this. “It’s John. I cut off his head, and he’s been raised.”

Herod and John the Baptist

¹⁷ What had happened was this. Herod had married Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. ¹⁸ John regularly told Herod it wasn’t right for him to take his brother’s wife; so Herod gave the word, arrested him and tied him up in prison.