and beheaded.

Matthew 17:12 But I say to you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done to him whatever they listed...

Matthew 21:35,36 And the farmers took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another...

Matthew 22:3-6 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come...

Matthew 23:34-36 Why, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you shall kill and crucify...

2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets...

Jeremiah 2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Mark 6:27-29 And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison...

Mark 9:13 But I say to you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done to him whatever they listed, as it is written of him.

Luke 9:9 And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.

Revelation 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them...

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.