“For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife: for he had married her.”
For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married — the flashback begins with the political-romantic context of John's arrest. Herod Antipas had married Herodias, the wife of his half-brother Philip — a marriage that violated Leviticus 18:16 (uncovering your brother's wife's nakedness) and 20:21 (taking your brother's wife creates childlessness). John had publicly declared the marriage unlawful (verse 18), which made him Herodias's enemy and Herod's political problem.
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