Mark 6:15-18

The Voice

Others (disagreeing): ¹⁵No, this Jesus is Elijah, returned to work on the earth.

And still others said He was another of the prophets.

Herod (to himself): ¹⁶No, it is John, the prophet I beheaded, risen from the dead.

For the blood of John was on his hands. ^17-18Herod had imprisoned John in the days before Jesus began His teaching. John had preached to Herod that he should not have married his own brother’s wife, Herodias, for so it is written in the Hebrew Scriptures: “It is not lawful for one to marry his brother’s wife.”^[a]

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