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Mat 14:10 — And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.

Phrase from KJV (Help)		Correlating Verses

and beheaded	Mat 17:12; Mat 21:35,36; Mat 22:3-6; Mat 23:34-36; 2Ch 36:16; Jer 2:30; Mar 6:27-29; Mar 9:13; Luk 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.