Mark 6:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Herod

Philip's

Luke 3:1

General references

Leviticus 18:16

Luke 3:19

John 3:24

Bible References

Herod

Now when Jesus heard that John [the Baptist] had been arrested and put in prison, He left for Galilee.

Now when John [the Baptist] in prison heard about the activities of Christ, he sent word by his disciples

For Herod had John arrested and bound him and put him in prison [at the fortress of Machaerus, east of the Jordan, to keep him away] because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip,

But when Herod [Antipas] the tetrarch was repeatedly reprimanded [and convicted by John’s disapproval] for having Herodias, his brother’s wife [as his own], and for all the wicked things that Herod had done,

Philip's

Now in the fifteenth year of [Emperor] Tiberius Caesar’s reign—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod [Antipas] was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene—

General references

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.

for John had not yet been thrown into prison.