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17For 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.

Mark 6:17

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  • Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,

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

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

  • Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

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

Commentary

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

(vv. 14-29)

Here is, I. The wild notions that the people had concerning our Lord Jesus, Mark 6:15. His own countrymen could believe nothing great concerning him, because they knew his poor kindred; but others that were not under the power of that prejudice against him, were yet willing to believe any thing rather than the truth—that he was the Son of God, and the true Messias: they said, He is Elias, whom the…

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