For Herod himself had sent and had had John arrested and had kept him in prison in chains, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.

He at once sent a soldier of his guard with orders to bring John's head. So he went and beheaded him in the prison,

Then, after John had been thrown into prison, Jesus came into Galilee proclaiming God's Good News.

and at this time a man named Barabbas was in prison among the insurgents--persons who in the insurrection had committed murder.