Matthew 14:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

The Death of John the Baptist

14 At that time Herod the ruler^[a] heard reports about Jesus; ² and he said to his servants, ‘This is John the Baptist; he has been raised from the dead, and for this reason these powers are at work in him.’ ³ For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,^[b]