¹⁹ and Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod did,

¹⁷ For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

¹⁸ for John said to Herod -- `It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

¹ And in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar -- Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother, tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene --

⁷ The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it -- shame, And a reprover of the wicked -- his blemish.

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.

¹² A scorner loveth not his reprover, Unto the wise he goeth not.

² And John having heard in the prison the works of the Christ, having sent two of his disciples,

³ For Herod having laid hold on John, did bind him, and did put him in prison, because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife,

⁴ for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'