While John was in prison he heard what the Messiah was doing, so he sent his disciples
So all the generations from Abraham to David add up to fourteen; from David to the Babylonian exile, fourteen; and from the Babylonian exile to the Messiah, fourteen.
Herod had detained John, and had him put in chains and imprisoned on account of Herodias, the wife of Philip, his brother.
When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he returned to Galilee.
Then the disciples of John came and asked, “Why is that we and the Pharisees fast frequently, but your disciples don't?”
For Herod had given orders to arrest and imprison John because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom Herod had married.
But when John reprimanded Herod the ruler for marrying Herodias, Herod's brother's wife, and for all the evil things he'd done,
Herod the tetrarch had heard about all that was happening, and he was very puzzled. Some were saying that John had been raised from the dead;
When Jesus realized that the Pharisees had discovered that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,