Herodias

On Herod’s birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod

But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,

Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.

So Herodias held a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she had been unable,