Luke 3:20

20 added this above all and leyd Iohn in preson.

Luke 3:20 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 3:20

Added yet this above all
This sin to all other sins, and which was of a more flagitious nature; and attended with more aggravating circumstances, especially in the issue of it:

that he shut up John in prison;
in the castle of Machaerus, by the instigation of Herodias; (See Gill on Matthew 14:3).

Luke 3:20 In-Context

18 And many other thinges in his exhortacion preached he vnto the people.

19 Then Herode the Tetrach (when he was rebuked of him for Herodias his brother Philippes wyfe and for all the evyls which Herod had done)

20 added this above all and leyd Iohn in preson.

21 And yt fortuned as all the people receaved baptyme (and when Iesus was baptised and dyd praye) that heave was opened

22 and the holy goost came doune in a bodely shape lyke a dove vpo him and a voyce came fro heve sayinge: Thou arte my dere sonne in the do I delyte.