0130801 Herod imprisons John the Baptist – Matthew 4:12, Mark 1:14, Luke 3:19-20, John 4:1-3, A.D. 26 Many scholars believe John was imprisoned at Machaerus, close to the Dead Sea in Judea
But Herod the tetrarch, being rebuked by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, added this also to them all, and he shut up John in prison. And now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, taken into custody, and when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples), he left Judea. Jesus withdrew, came, and departed into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of God.
