#sdtps For #Herod himself, sending orders, had seized John and bound him in #prison, because of #Herodias his brother Philip’s #wife, whom he had married. For John had been saying to Herod,
“It is not permissible for you to have your brother’s wife.” And #Herodias had been culturing a fierce grudge against him, and was wanting to have him liquidated, and could not, for #Herod half feared and half respected John, knowing him to be a righteous and #holy man, and as such he protected him. #TIBTM67