What Is Philip in the Bible?
Person
This is what Matthew and Mark call the first husband of Herodias, a half brother of Herod Antipas.
It can mean
- Careful: he is not the apostle Philip, nor Philip the tetrarch of Luke 3:1.
- In Luke 3:19: the Spanish Bible of 1836 gives his name; other Bibles only say “his brother.”
Where it appears in the Bible
Mark 6:17; Matthew 14:3
What the Bible says
Mark 6:17
For Herod himself had sent and apprehended John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.
Matthew 14:3
For Herod had apprehended John and bound him, and put him into prison, because of Herodias, his brother’s wife.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Matthew 14:3 and Mark 6:17, with their NABRE notes; Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), “Herod”