Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 3:20

20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

These two Verses sufficiently Confirm to us, that we are not to expect to find the several passages in the Gospel concerning Iohn the Baptist, set down according to the order of time, in which they happened, for the Evangelist sets down the imprisonment of Iohn, before the Baptisme of Christ mentioned in the two next Verses, which we know could not be as to the order of time, our Saviour being Baptized by Iohn. Iohn was in so great Repute, that Herod himself heard him, did many things, and heard him gladly, Mar. 6.20. But Iohn was a faithful Preacher, and could not but reprove him for his wicked Courses, particularly for his Incestuous taking of his Brother Philips Wife; for he was alive when he took her, if it be true which Historians tells us that Iohn was imprisoned in the sixteenth Year of Tiberius Caesar, and Philip died not till the twentieth, however, his Brother leaving issue (for we read Herodias had a Daughter, Matth. 14.) it was unlawful for him to have Married her, especially to turn away his own Wife to take her. Matthew reporteth this History more fully, Chap. 14.3, 4. &c. see the Notes there. It is said, that Herod, addeth yet this above all, that is, above all his former or other Wickedness, that he shut up John in Prison. This spake him incorrigible in his wicked Courses, resisting the Remedy, or means to reduce him. An Hypocrite may hear the Word, and do many things, but he hath always some particular Lust, as to which he must be spared, being neither willing to part with it, nor able to bear any reproof for it.