¹² His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.’^(A)

²⁰ Herod added this to everything else – he locked up John in prison.^(A)

Herod’s Desire to See Jesus

⁷ Herod the tetrarch^(A) heard about everything that was going on.^(B) He was perplexed, because some said that John had been raised from the dead, ⁸ some that Elijah had appeared,^(C) and others that one of the ancient prophets had risen.^{(D) 9} ‘I beheaded John,’ Herod said, ‘but who is this I hear such things about? ’ And he wanted to see him.^(E)

²⁴ since John had not yet been thrown into prison.^(A)