Matthew and Mark, have placed the fact of John’s imprisonment in that position in their narratives which, as is apparent also from their own writings, belonged to it in the actual order of events. For they, too, have told us how it was on John’s being cast into prison that the Lord went into Galilee;1048 and then, after [relating] a number of things which He did in Galilee, they come to Herod’s admonition or doubt as to the rising again from the dead of that John whom he beheaded;1049 and in connection with this latter occasion, they give us the story of all that occurred in the matter of John’s incarceration and death. 1048 Matt. iv. 12; Mark i. 14. 1049 Matt. xiv. 1, 2; Mark vi. 14–16. 327 Of the Order in Which the Accounts of John’s Imprisonment and Death are…