Herod was the one who had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married.
When John heard in prison of the works of the Messiah, he sent his disciples to him
When he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee.
But when Herod learned of it, he said, “It is John whom I beheaded. He has been raised up.” The Death of John the Baptist.
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
for John had not yet been imprisoned.