Mateo 14:3

3 Pues Herodes había arrestado y encarcelado a Juan como un favor para su esposa, Herodías (ex esposa de Felipe, el hermano de Herodes).

Mateo 14:3 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 14:3

For Herod had laid hold on John
By his servants, whom he sent to apprehend him:

and bound him;
laid him in chains, as if he was a malefactor;

and put him in prison,
in the castle of Machaerus ^F4,

for Herodias's sake;
who was angry with him, had a bitter quarrel against him, and by whose instigation all this was done; who was

his brother Philip's wife.
This Herodias was the daughter of Aristobulus, son to Herod the Great ^F5, and brother to Philip, and to this Herod; so that she was niece to them both; and first married the one, and then the other, whilst the former was living. Philip and this Herod were both sons of Herod the Great, but not by the same woman; Philip was born of Cleopatra of Jerusalem, and Herod Antipas of Malthace, a Samaritan ^F6; so that Philip was his brother by his father's side, but not by his mother's; the Evangelist Mark adds, "for he had married her": the case was this, Herod being sent for to Rome, called at his brother Philip's by the way, where he fell into an amorous intrigue with his wife, and agreed, upon his return, to take her with him and marry her; as he accordingly did, and divorced his own wife, who was daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia Petraea; which occasioned a war between Herod and his wife's father, in which the former was beaten ^F7,

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Joseph. Antiqu. 1. 18. c. 7.
F5 Ib. c. 6.
F6 Joseph. Antiqu. 1. 18. c. 6. de Bello Jud. l. 1. c. 28. sect. 7.
F7 Joseph. Antiqu. 1. 18. c. 6.

Mateo 14:3 In-Context

1 Muerte de Juan el Bautista
Cuando Herodes Antipas, el gobernante de Galilea,
oyó hablar de Jesús,

2 les dijo a sus consejeros: «¡Este debe ser Juan el Bautista que resucitó de los muertos! Por eso puede hacer semejantes milagros».

3 Pues Herodes había arrestado y encarcelado a Juan como un favor para su esposa, Herodías (ex esposa de Felipe, el hermano de Herodes).

4 Juan venía diciendo a Herodes: «Es contra la ley de Dios que te cases con ella».

5 Herodes quería matar a Juan pero temía que se produjera un disturbio, porque toda la gente creía que Juan era un profeta.