οὔπω γὰρ … ὁ Ἰωάννης, “for not yet had John been cast into prison”: a clause inserted for the sake of those who might have gathered from the synoptic narrative that John was cast into prison immediately after the temptation of Jesus, Mark 1:14; Matthew 4:12. John having been present with Jesus through all this period can give the sequence of the events with chronological precision.

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Old Testament