Luke 3:20
Good News Translation
Then Herod did an even worse thing by putting John in prison.

New Revised Standard Version
added to them all by shutting up John in prison.

Contemporary English Version
Finally, Herod put John in jail, and this was the worst thing he had done.

New American Bible
added still another to these by [also] putting John in prison.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He added this also above all and shut up John in prison.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He added this also above all and shut up John in prison.

Luke 13:31-34 The same day, there came some of the Pharisees, saying to him: Depart, and get thee hence, for Herod hath a mind to kill thee. . . .

2 Kings 21:16 Moreover, Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.

2 Kings 24:4 And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.

2 Chronicles 24:17-22 And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and worshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened to them. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Nehemiah 9:26 But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies.

Jeremiah 2:30 In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.

Matthew 21:35-41 And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one and killed another and stoned another. . . .

Matthew 22:6,7 And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them contumeliously, put them to death. . . .

Matthew 23:31-33 Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:15,16 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men; . . .

Revelation 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: and thou hast given them blood to drink. For they are worthy.

Context
The Mission of John the Baptist
19But Herod the tetrarch, when he was reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done: 20He added this also above all and shut up John in prison. 21Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that Jesus also being baptized and praying, heaven was opened.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:12
And when Jesus had heard that John was delivered up, he retired into Galilee:

John 3:24
For John was not yet cast into prison.

Luke 3:19
Top of Page
Top of Page