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,

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