For Herod himself had sent for John to be arrested and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her.
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,