Luke 3:20

added this also to all [the rest], that he shut up John in prison.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

In Context

19But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him as to Herodias, the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked things which Herod had done,

21And it came to pass, all the people having been baptised, and Jesus having been baptised and praying, that the heaven was opened,

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Cross References

2 Kings 21:16And Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem [with it] from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 24:17And after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and made obeisance to the king; then the king hearkened to them.

Nehemiah 9:26But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

Matthew 21:35And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

Matthew 23:31So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:

John 3:24for John was not yet cast into prison.

Matthew Henry on Luke 3:16-21

Imprisonment of John the Baptist. 15 And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not; 16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: 17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire… Read the whole commentary →

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