^{17 Ref} 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 Ref} for John said to Herod -- `It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

^{19 Ref} and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,