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According to the Jewish historian, Josephus, Herod Antipas had John the Baptist killed because he disapproved of Antipas’ marriage to his own brother’s wife, who divorced her husband in order to marry Herod Antipas. The marriage must have taken place after 34 CE and Josephus’ account of John’s execution seems to place in the year 36.
