Luke 3:20

He added yet this aboue all, that he shut vp Iohn in prison.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19But when Herod the Tetrarch was rebuked of him, for Herodias his brother Philips wife, and for all the euils which Herod had done,

21Nowe it came to passe, as all the people were baptized, and that Iesus was baptized and did pray, that the heauen was opened:

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Cross References

2 Kings 21:16Moreouer Manasseh shed innocent blood exceeding much, till hee replenished Ierusalem from corner to corner, beside his sinne wherwith he made Iudah to sinne, and to doe euill in the sight of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 24:17And after the death of Iehoiada, came the princes of Iudah, and did reuerence to the King, and the King hearkened vnto them.

Nehemiah 9:26Yet they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy Lawe behinde their backes, and slewe thy Prophets (which protested among them to turne them vnto thee) and committed great blasphemies.

Matthew 21:35And ye husbandmen tooke his seruants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Matthew 23:31So then ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the children of them that murthered the Prophets.

John 3:24For Iohn 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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