Matthew 14:3
“¶ For Herode had layd hold on Iohn, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wife.”
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Matthew 14:3 Context
1At that time Herod the Tetrarch heard of the fame of Iesus, 2And said vnto his seruants, This is Iohn the Baptist, hee is risen from the dead, and therfore mighty workes doe shew foorth themselues in him. 3¶ For Herode had layd hold on Iohn, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wife. 4For Iohn said vnto him, It is not lawfull for thee to haue her. 5And when he would haue put him to death, hee feared the multitude, because they counted him as a Prophet.
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Other Translations for Matthew 14:3
For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put [him] in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
- King James Version
For when Herod had John arrested, he bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
- American Standard Version (1901)
For Herod had taken John and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
- Basic English Bible
For Herod had seized John, and had bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother.
- Darby Bible
For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
- Webster's Bible
For Herod had arrested John, and had put him in chains, and imprisoned him, for the sake of Herodias his brother Philip's wife,
- Weymouth Bible
For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
- World English Bible
For Heroude hadde holde Joon, and bounde hym, and puttide hym `in to prisoun for Herodias, the wijf of his brothir.
- Wycliffe Bible
For Herod having laid hold on John, did bind him, and did put him in prison, because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife,
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for Matthew 14:3
14:3 His brother Philip's wife - Who was still alive. #Mark 6:17|.
People's Bible Notes for Matthew 14:3
Mt 14:3 For Herod had laid hold on John. This arrest of John the Baptist had taken place a year previous, shortly before our Lord's second visit to Galilee (Mt 4:12 Mr 1:14), the events of which are given by John (Joh 4:43-54). The prison was the castle of Machaerus. See PNT "Mt 11:2". For the Herodias' sake. Antipas had been, while at Rome, the guest of his brother Herod Philip. Here he became entangled by the snares of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; and he repaid the hospitality he had received by carrying her off. He had himself long been married to the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia. This Herodias was the granddaughter of "Herod the King", and, hence, the niece of both her lawful husband and of Herod Antipas, who now had her.