NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 14:3

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For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

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Verse 3. 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 Saint Mark, 6:17. Witham.—He is a different person from Philip the tetrarch, mentioned in Saint Luke. 3:1. V.

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