1. At that time reports about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came to the oznayim (ears) of Herod the Tetrarch.
2. And he said to his servants, This one is Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva. He has had his Techiyah (Resurrection) from HaMesim (the Dead) and for this reason the moftim (wonders) are working in him.
3. For Herod had Yochanan arrested and bound him and threw him into the beit hasohar (prison), on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.
4. For Yochanan kept on saying to him, It is asur for you to have her.
5. And [although] Herod was desiring to kill Yochanan, he feared the crowd, because they considered Yochanan a Navi.
6. Now at the yom huledet celebration of Herod, it came about that the daughter of Herodias danced before them and Herod was pleased.