Herod had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.
Now when John had heard in prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
Now when Jesus heard that John was put in prison, He left for Galilee.
But when Herod heard of it, he said, “It is John, whom I beheaded. He has been raised from the dead!”
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Caesar Tiberius, Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip was tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Traconitis, and Lysanias was the tetrarch of Abilene.
For John had not yet been put in prison.