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24For John was not yet cast into prison.

John 3:24

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  • Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;

  • For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.

  • For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.

  • But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, …

  • Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead; …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-36)

In these verses we have, I. Christ’s removal into the land of Judea (John 3:22), and there he tarried with his disciples. Observe, 1. Our Lord Jesus, after he entered upon his public work, travelled much, and removed often, as the patriarchs in their sojournings. As it was a good part of his humiliation that he had no certain dwelling-place, but was, as Paul, in journeyings often , so it was an in…

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