Mark 6:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸For John had said unto Herod , It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

Mark 6:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 20:21
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
Leviticus 18:16
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
1 Kings 22:14
And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
Ezekiel 3:18-19
When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. …
Matthew 14:3-4
For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. …

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife--Noble fidelity! It was not lawful because Herod’s wife and Herodias’ husband were both living; and further, because the parties were within the forbidden degrees of consanguinity (see Le 20:21); Herodias being the daughter of Aristobulus, the brother of both Herod and Philip [Josephus, Antiquities, 18.5,4].