¹⁷ For [this] Herod himself had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he [Herod] had married her.

¹⁸ For John had told Herod, It is not lawful and you have no right to have your brother’s wife.

¹⁹ And Herodias was angry (enraged) with him and held a grudge against him and wanted to kill him; but she could not,