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,

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

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,

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

¹² And Jesus having heard that John was delivered up, did withdraw to Galilee,

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,'

⁵ and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.

⁶ But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod,

⁷ whereupon with an oath he professed to give her whatever she might ask.

⁸ And she having been instigated by her mother -- `Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;

⁹ and the king was grieved, but because of the oaths and of those reclining with him, he commanded `it' to be given;

¹⁰ and having sent, he beheaded John in the prison,

¹¹ and his head was brought upon a plate, and was given to the damsel, and she brought `it' nigh to her mother.

¹² And his disciples having come, took up the body, and buried it, and having come, they told Jesus,

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 --