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# General Information:
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Matthew recounts the story of John the Baptist's death in order to show why Herod reacted the way he did when he heard about Jesus.
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# Connecting Statement:
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Here the author begins to tell about how Herod had executed John the Baptist. These events occur some time before the event in the previous verses. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-events]])
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# Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison
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It says that Herod did these things because he ordered others to do them for him. Alternate translation: "Herod ordered his soldiers to arrest and bind John the Baptist and put him in prison" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# Philip's wife
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Philip was Herod's brother. Herod had taken Philip's wife to be his own wife. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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