Verses 19-20: But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother's wife, and all the other evil things he had done , Herod added this to them all; He locked John up in prison.
So Herod was being a pretty bad guy, committed all types of evil deeds, in order to shut up John and to diminish the attention to his own evil deeds he locks up John. Isn't this the very nature of sin? Sin is the master of the "slippery slope" one "small insignificant" sin paves the way to the next level of sin, and so forth. I have been guilty of this same behavior, I will perform one evil deed to cover up another evil deed. Perverse logic for sure, its the old "two wrongs don't make a right", but I think most of us have been guilty of doing the same as Herod here.
Another interesting dimension here s that when someone brings my wrong doing to my attention, I (we) tend to lash out at the person sending the message. I don't know why we do this, its a built in self defense mechanism, maybe. Maybe we are ashamed and our reflex is to extinguish the source of the shame, in this case, wrongly, the messenger (versus our own behavior).
One misdeed (sin) leads to the next, normally more severe and damaging level of sin.
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