Mark 6:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For Herod himself had sent men who arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For [this] Herod himself had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because he [Herod] had married her.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

He said this because Herod himself had arranged to have John arrested and put in prison because of Herodias, the wife of Herod’s brother Philip. Herod had married her,

Catholic Public Domain Version

For Herod himself had sent to capture John, and had chained him in prison, because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip; for he had married her.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For Herod himself had sent and apprehended John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.

Mark 6:17 Cross References

Matthew 11:2

When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent word by his disciples

Matthew 4:12

Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee.

Mark 6:16

But when Herod heard of it, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised.”

Luke 3:1

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene,

John 3:24

(John, of course, had not yet been thrown into prison.)