Luke 3:20

added this above all and leyd Iohn in preson.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19Then Herode the Tetrach (when he was rebuked of him for Herodias his brother Philippes wyfe and for all the evyls which Herod had done)

21And that fortuned as all the people receaved baptyme (and when Iesus was baptised and dyd praye) that heaven was opened

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Cross References

Matthew 21:35And the husbandme caught his servauntes and bet one kylled another and stoned another.

Matthew 23:31So then ye be witnesses vnto youre selfes that ye are the chyldren of them which killed the prophetes.

John 3:24For Iohn was not yet cast into preson.

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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