Mark 6:18
For Yochanan had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife.
In Context
19Herodias set herself against him and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
Cross References
Leviticus 18:16“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.
1 Kings 22:14Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak.”
Matthew 14:3For Herod had arrested Yochanan, bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.
Acts 24:24After some days, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Messiah Yeshua.
Matthew Henry on Mark 6:15-30
The Death of John the Baptist. 14 And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in him. 15 Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets. 16 But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead. 17 For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake,… Read the whole commentary →