¹⁷ For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; for he had married her.

² Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Christ, he sent by his disciples

¹⁹ but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

²⁰ added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

¹² Now when he heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee;

³ For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

⁴ For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.

⁵ And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

⁶ But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod.

⁷ Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she should ask.

⁸ And she, being put forward by her mother, saith, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.

⁹ And the king was grieved; but for the sake of his oaths, and of them that sat at meat with him, he commanded it to be given;

¹⁰ and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

¹¹ And his head was brought on a platter, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.

¹² And his disciples came, and took up the corpse, and buried him; and they went and told Jesus.

¹ Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,