So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.

So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

So after sending two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed on for a while in the province of Asia.

For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must happen very soon. He made it clear by sending his angel to his servant John,

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.