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For Herod Had Beheaded John The Baptist

For[a] Herod, having seized John, bound him and put him away in prison because of Herodias[b], the wife of Philip[c] his brother.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 14:3 Matthew now explains what happened to John at some time previous to this (see Mk 1:14), then continues in v 13.
  2. Matthew 14:3 She was a grand-daughter of Herod the Great, daughter of Aristobulus, sister of Agrippa I (Act 12:1).
  3. Matthew 14:3 That is, Philip I, a private citizen in Rome. Antipas, Aristobulus, and Philip were sons of Herod the Great from three different wives.

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