Mark 6:17-19 ▼

17 For Herod himself had sent and had had John arrested and had kept him in prison in chains, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.

18 For John had repeatedly told Herod, "You have no right to be living with your brother's wife."

19 Therefore Herodias hated him and wished to take his life, but could not;