Matthew 14:4 meaning and explanation
because John had been telling him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
Matthew 14:4, Berean Standard Bible
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John the Baptist had been speaking directly to Herod Anticharis, the tetrarch of Galilee, about Herodias, the wife of Herod's brother Philip. John's charge was not a general moral lecture but a specific application of the law: Herod had taken his brother's wife, and John kept saying this was not lawful.
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