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he said to his men, “This must be John the Baptist, come back to life again. That is why he can do these miracles.” For Herod had arrested John and chained him in prison at the demand of[a] his wife Herodias, his brother Philip’s ex-wife, because John had told him it was wrong for him to marry her.

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  1. Matthew 14:3 at the demand of, literally, “on account of.”

and he said to his attendants, “This is John the Baptist;(A) he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison(B) because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,(C) for John had been saying to him: “It is not lawful for you to have her.”(D)

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