Mark 6:17-19

Amplified Bible

¹⁷ For Herod himself had sent [guards] and had John arrested and shackled in prison because of ^[a]Herodias, the wife of his [half-] brother Philip, because he (Herod) had married her.^{(A) 18} For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful [under Mosaic Law] for you to have your brother’s wife.”^{(B) 19} Herodias had a grudge against John and wanted to kill him, but she could not,