What does Mark 6:17-19 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.
For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
Therefore Herodias had a quarreld against him, and would have killed him; but she could not: