Mar 6:17-19, 24-25, Joh 9:40 | ESV | STEP | For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias , his brother Philip’s wife , because he had married her .

c[See ver. 17 above]

Mark 6:17-19

17 ^aFor it was Herod who had sent and seized John and ^bbound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her. 18 ^cFor John had been saying to Herod, ^d“It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” 19 And Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death. But she could not,

Mark 6:24-25

24 And she went out and said to her mother, “For what should I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.” 25 And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

John 9:40

40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, ^e“Are we also blind?”