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John the Baptist beheaded
Herod had imprisoned John for rebuking his marriage to Herodias. Bound by an oath made at his banquet, Herod ordered John beheaded, and John's disciples took his body and told Jesus (Matthew 14:1-12).
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📖 Matthew 14:1–3
1At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus 2and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.” 3Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,
Sources: Scripture — Matthew 14:1-12 · Mark 6:14-29
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