For Herod had ordered. This arrest of John had happened a year earlier, just before Jesus made his second visit to Galilee (Matthew 4:12; Mark 1:14). He did this because of Herodias. While the guest of his brother Philip in Rome, he had fallen in love with his brother's wife, and took her with him when he left. His legal wife was the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia. Herodias was the granddaughter of "Herod the King," niece to both her legal husband and to Herod Antipas, with whom she was now living.

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