Mark 6:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Christ, he sent by his disciples,

Matthew 4:12

Now when he heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee;

Mark 6:16

But Herod, when he heard thereof, said, John, whom I beheaded, he is risen.

Luke 3:1

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 the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

John 3:24

For John was not yet cast into prison.