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Another answer from our community:This depends entirely on one's definition of 'shortly.' Since the Gospel accounts after the Baptism of Jesus are focusing on Jesus and not John, it is difficult to get an exact time frame. However, it certainly was within the three year time period of Jesus' ministry as it occurred before Jesus' own death. John also spent some time in prison before being executed. There was also a period of time between John's being executed and Jesus being crucified. So, it would appear to have been anything from 6 months to 2 or slightly more years after.

According to the Gospel records, it would appear that John may have been arrested relatively soon after Jesus was baptized. However, we do not know the length of his imprisonment. We know that there were gaps in the chronological record and we also know that we do not know how long these were. There is of course nothing unusual in this in either the Gospels or in other ancient writings which tended to focus on key events rather than strict chronology.

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