Mark 6:16 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁶ But when King Herod heard [about Jesus], he said, “John, whom I [had] decapitated, has risen.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ But when Herod heard [of it], he said, [This very] John, whom I beheaded, has been raised [from the dead].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ But Herod, when he heard thereof, said, John, whom I beheaded, he is risen.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But when Herod heard these rumors, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised to life.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ When Herod had heard it, he said, "John whom I beheaded, the same has risen again from the dead."

Mark 6:16 Cross References

Luke 9:9

Then Herod said, “I had John decapitated, so who is this person about whom I hear such things?” And he became eager to see Jesus.

Matthew 27:4

saying, “I have sinned by delivering up an innocent man to die.” But they replied, “What is that to us? It is your affair!”

Matthew 14:2

He told his servants, “This must be John, the Immerser; he has risen from the dead and [that explains how] these powers can work through him [i.e., Jesus].”

Mark 6:15

But others said, “He is [the prophet] Elijah” [while] others said, “He is a prophet like one of the prophets [of old].”

Mark 6:17

For it was Herod himself who had sent for John and had him arrested and chained up in prison. He did this to please Herodias, who was [i.e., had been] his brother Philip’s wife, but whom Herod had married.