 For Herod himself had sent men who arrested John, bound him, put him in prison on account of Herodotus, his brother's wife Philip, because Herod had married her. When John had been telling Herod, it's not lawful for you to have your brother's wife, and Herodotus had a grudge against him and wanted to kill him, but she could not. For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he protected him.