Luke 3:20

Herod added this to everything else: He locked John up in prison.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother's wife, and because of all the evils he had done,

21Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus had also been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened,

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Cross References

Matthew 21:35But the farmers seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned yet another.

Matthew 23:31Therefore you bear witness against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

John 3:24(For John had not yet been thrown 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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