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15 Others said, “He is Elijah.”[a]

Other people said, “Jesus is a prophet, like the prophets who lived long ago.”

16 When Herod heard this, he said, “I killed John by cutting off his head. Now he has risen from the dead!”

17 Herod himself had ordered his soldiers to arrest John and put him in prison in order to please his wife, Herodias. She had been the wife of Philip, Herod’s brother, but then Herod had married her.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:15 Elijah A great prophet who spoke for God and who lived hundreds of years before Christ. See 1 Kings 17.

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