For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Because of Herodias, his brother's wife. In the common Greek copies we read, his brother Philip's wife, as it is in the Latin in St. Mark, vi. 17. (Witham)
He is a different person from Philip the tetrarch, mentioned in St. Luke. iii. 1. (Bible de Vence)
