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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.

Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison(A) because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,(B)

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