John 3:24
22 After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.
23 Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
25 Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the issue of ceremonial washing.
26 So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Look, Rabbi, the One who was with you beyond the Jordan, the One you testified about—He is baptizing, and everyone is going to Him.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
- KJV
- For John was not yet cast into prison.
- WEB
- for John was not yet thrown into prison.
- ASV
- For John was not yet cast into prison.
- DARBY
- for John was not yet cast into prison.
- BLB
- For John was not yet thrown into the prison.
- ÅB
- for Johannes var enda ikke kastet i fengsel.
- OTB
- (Dette skjedde før Johannes ble fengslet.)
- B1930
- for Johannes var enda ikke kastet i fengsel.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 4:12
When Jesus heard that John had been imprisoned, He withdrew to Galilee.
Read in contextMatthew 14:3
Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,
Read in contextMark 6:17
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.
Read in contextLuke 3:19–20
But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,
Read in contextLuke 9:7–9
When Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, he was perplexed. For some were saying that John had risen from the dead,
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