For Herod his sel had sent oot, and laid haud oʼ John, and putten him in prison, for the sake oʼ Herodias, his brother Philipʼs wife; for he had marryʼt her.
Noo, iʼ the fifteenth year oʼ the rule oʼ Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate bein Governor oʼ Judea, and Herod Tetrarch oʼ Galilee; Philip, his brither, bein Tetrarch oʼ the kintra oʼ Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanius Tetrarch oʼ Abilene,
“For oʼ a truth they war gaitherʼt in this citie, again thy Holy Ane Jesus, that thou did anoint, baith Herod and Pontius Pilate, wiʼ Gentiles and folk oʼ Israʼl,