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For Herod had arrested John and chained him in prison at the demand of[a] his wife Herodias, his brother Philip’s ex-wife, because John had told him it was wrong for him to marry her. He would have killed John but was afraid of a riot, for all the people believed John was a prophet.

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  1. Matthew 14:3 at the demand of, literally, “on account of.”

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