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John Gill
For Herod himself had sent forth,.... Some of his guard, a detachment of soldiers, and laid hold upon John; who seized upon him, and took him up: and bound him in prison; in the castle of Machaerus: for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her; whilst his brother was living, and who had had children by her; [See comments on Matthew 14:3].
Matthew Henry
A great variety of observable passages we have, in this chapter, concerning our Lord Jesus, the substance of all which we had before in Matthew, but divers circumstances we have, which we did not there meet with. Here is, I. Christ contemned by his countrymen, because he was one of them, and they knew, or thought they knew, his original, ver. 1-6. II. The just power he gave his apostles over...