Luke 3:20

He added this also above all, and shut up John in prison.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19But Herod the tetrarch, when he was reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done;

21Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that Jesus also being baptized and praying, heaven was opened;

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Cross References

2 Kings 21:16Moreover Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.

2 Chronicles 24:17And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and worshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened to them.

Nehemiah 9:26But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee : and they were guilty of great blasphemies.

Matthew 21:35And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Matthew 23:31Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed 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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