Mark 6:17-19

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Herod and John the Baptist

¹⁷ What had happened was this. Herod had married Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. ¹⁸ John regularly told Herod it wasn’t right for him to take his brother’s wife; so Herod gave the word, arrested him and tied him up in prison. ¹⁹ Herodias kept up a grudge against him and wanted to kill him, but couldn’t;