Luke 3:20

Added this aboue all, & shut vp Iohn in pryson.

Bible (Bishops')

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19Then Herode the tetrarch, when he was rebuked of hym for Herodias, his brother Philippes wyfe, and for all the euyls which Herode dyd,

21Nowe it came to passe, as all the people were baptized, and when Iesus was baptized, and dyd praye, that the heauen was opened,

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Cross References

Matthew 21:35And the husbande men caught his seruauntes, and beatte one, killed another, and stoned another.

Matthew 23:31And so ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the chyldren of them which kylled the prophetes.

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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