For Herod, after[a] arresting John, bound him and put him[b] in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because John had been saying to him, “It is not permitted for you to have her.” And although he[c] wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they looked upon him as a prophet.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 14:3 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“arresting”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 14:3 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Matthew 14:5 Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“wanted”) which is understood as concessive