Mat 14:10

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and beheaded.

Matt 17:12; Matt 21:35; Matt 21:36; Matt 22:3-6; Matt 23:34-36; 2Chr 36:16; Jer 2:30; Mark 6:27-29 Mark 9:13; Luke 9:9; Rev 11:7

the prison.

Josephus informs us that John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded by Herod in the strong castle of Machaerus, which he describes as situated about 60 stadia east of Jordan, not far from where the river discharges itself into the Dead Sea.