Cross references

Mark 6:17

For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.

Mark 6:17 BSB

Mark 6:17 has 5 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Matthew 11:2 (6 votes) and Luke 3:19–20 (6 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Leviticus 18 to Galatians 2.

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Which verses does Mark 6:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Meanwhile John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and he sent his disciples

  2. But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done, Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.

  3. When Jesus heard that John had been imprisoned, He withdrew to Galilee.

  4. Luke 3:14 votes

    In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

  5. Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because John had been telling him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” …

Which verses point to Mark 6:17?

The 10 strongest of 20.