For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

He seized the dragon – the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan – and tied him up for a thousand years.

For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.

Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”