Luke - 3:20

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20 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

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Explanation and meaning of Luke 3:20.

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Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
added this also to all the rest, that he shut up John in prison.
now added this to crown all the rest, that he threw John into prison.
Did this most evil thing of all, and had John shut up in prison.
added this also, above all else: that he confined John to prison.
crowned them all by shutting John up in prison.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Added yet this above all,.... This sin to all other sins, and which was of a more flagitious nature; and attended with more aggravating circumstances, especially in the issue of it:
that he shut up John in prison; in the castle of Machaerus, by the instigation of Herodias; See Gill on Matthew 14:3.

Added yet, &c.--(Also see on Matthew 3:12).

He shut up John - This circumstance, though it happened after, is here mentioned before our Lord's baptism, that his history (that of John being concluded) may then follow without any interruption.

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