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In this section, Matthew wrote how John the Baptist was killed. This section can be difficult to translate because the events are not in chronological order.
Verses 1–2 refer to events that happened after John the Baptist died. But verses 3–12 refer back to events that had happened before John the Baptist died, and they include the story of his death. You will need to clearly indicate the change in time at 14:3.
Here are some other possible headings for this section:
The Death of John the Baptist (GNT)
John the Baptist Beheaded (NASB)
There are parallel passages for this section in Mark 6:14–29 and Luke 9:7–9.
and sent to have John beheaded in the prison.
He sent them to go and cut off John’s head in prison,
He sent soldiers to the prison to cut off John’s head. (NCV)
and sent: This means that Herod sent one or more of his soldiers. For example:
He sent soldiers (NCV)
to have John beheaded in the prison: This means that Herod ordered one of his men to kill John by cutting off his head.
Here are some other ways to translate this clause:
caused John to be beheaded in prison
to get John and cut/chop off his head in prison
to the prison to cut off John’s head. (NCV)
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
πέμψας, ἀπεκεφάλισεν
˓having˒_sent ˱he˲_beheaded
Matthew implies that Herod sent one of his soldiers to behead John. You could include this information if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [having sent a soldier, Herod had him behead]
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.