Matthew 14:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Put him in prison. — Josephus (Ant. xviii. 5, § 2) gives Machærus, in Peræa, as the scene of the imprisonment and death of the Baptist.

Matthew 14:3

3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.