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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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# General Information:
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The writer 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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# For Herod ... as your wife
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If needed, you can reverse the order of events in 9:3-4 as in the UDB. (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. AT: "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 is the name of Herod's brother. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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# For John had said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her as your wife."
This can be expressed as an indirect quote, if needed. AT: "For John had said to him that it was not lawful for him to have her as his wife" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])
# For John had said to him
"For John had kept saying to Herod"
# It is not lawful
Philip was still alive when Herod married Herodias. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
# he feared
"Herod feared"
# they regarded him
"they regarded John"