[17] For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her. [18] For John unto Herod, not lawful to have brother's wife. [19] Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not: [20] For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, many things, and heard him gladly.