Mat 14:1-2, Mar 6:22, 26-27, Luk 3:1, 9:7-9, 13:31, 23:7-12 | TSK | STEP | Herod's opinion of Christ. Wherefore John Baptist was beheaded. Jesus departs into a desert place, where he feeds five thousand men with five loves and two fishes. He walks on the sea to his disciples; and landing at Gennesaret, heals the sick by the touch of the hem of his garment. Herod.This was Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great, by Malthace, and tetrarch of Galilee and Peræa, which produced a revenue of 200 talents a year. He married the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia, whom he divorced in order to marry Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, who was still living. Aretas, to revenge the affront which Herod had offered his daughter, declared war against him, and vanquished him after an obstinate engagement. This defeat, Josephus assures us, the Jews considered as a punishment for the death of John the Baptist. Having gone to Rome to solicit the title of king, he was accused by Agrippa of carrying on a correspondence with Artabanus king of Parthia, against the Romans, and was banished by the emperor Caius to Lyons, and thence to Spain, where he and Herodias died in exile. Tetrarch.

Matthew 14:1-2

1 Herod's opinion of Christ.

3 Wherefore John Baptist was beheaded.

13 Jesus departs into a desert place,

15 where he feeds five thousand men with five loves and two fishes.

22 He walks on the sea to his disciples;

34 and landing at Gennesaret, heals the sick by the touch of the hem of his garment.

Herod.This was Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great, by Malthace, and tetrarch of Galilee and Peræa, which produced a revenue of 200 talents a year. He married the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia, whom he divorced in order to marry Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, who was still living. Aretas, to revenge the affront which Herod had offered his daughter, declared war against him, and vanquished him after an obstinate engagement. This defeat, Josephus assures us, the Jews considered as a punishment for the death of John the Baptist. Having gone to Rome to solicit the title of king, he was accused by Agrippa of carrying on a correspondence with Artabanus king of Parthia, against the Romans, and was banished by the emperor Caius to Lyons, and thence to Spain, where he and Herodias died in exile.

Mr 6:14-16; 8:15; Lu 9:7-9; 13:31,32; 23:8-12,15; Ac 4:27

Tetrarch.

Lu 3:1

This.

11:11; 16:14; Mr 8:28; Joh 10:41

do shew forth themselves in him. or, are wrought by him.

Mark 6:22

Es 1:10-12; Isa 3:16-26; Da 5:2; Mt 14:6

Mark 6:26-27

Mt 14:9; 27:3-5,24,25

the king.

Mt 14:10,11

an executioner. or, one of his guard.[Spekoulator ,] in Latin, speculator, from speculor, to look about, spy, properly denotes a sentinel; and as these sentinels kept guard at the palaces of kings, and the residences of Roman governors, so they were employed in other offices besides guarding, and usually performed that of executioners. As, however, we learn from Josephus, that Herod was at this very time engaged in war with Aretas, king of Arabia, in consequence of Herod's having divorced his daughter in order to marry Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; and as this event occurred at an entertainment given at the castle of Machaerus, while his army was on its march against his father-in-law; we are furnished with an additional reason why a speculator, or sentinel, should have been employed as an executioner; and are thus enabled to discover such a latent and undesigned coincidence as clearly evinces the truth of the evangelical narrative.

Luke 3:1

1 The preaching and baptism of John;

15 his testimony of Christ;

19 Herod imprisons John;

21 Christ, baptized, receives testimony from heaven.

23 The age and genealogy of Christ from Joseph upwards.

A.M. 4030. A.D. 26.

Tiberius Cesar.

2:1

Pontius Pilate.

23:1-4,24; Ge 49:10; Ac 4:27; 23:26; 24:27; 26:30

Herod.

19; 9:7; 23:6-11

his.

Mt 14:3; Mr 6:17

Ituraea.Ituraea was a province of Syria east of Jordan, now called Djedour, according to Burckhardt, and comprising all the flat country south of Djebel Kessoue as far as Nowa, east of Djebel el Sheikh, or mount Hermon, and west of the Hadj road. Trachonitis, according to Strabo and Ptolemy, comprehended all the uneven country on the east of Auranitis, now Haouran, from near Damascus to Bozra, now called El Ledja and Djebel Haouran. Abilene was a district in the valley of Lebanon, so called from Abila its chief town, eighteen miles N. of Damascus, according to Antoninus.

Luke 9:7-9

A.M. 4036. A.D. 32.

Herod.

Job 18:11,12; Ps 73:19; Mt 14:1-12; Mr 6:14-28

Tetrarch.A tetrarch, [tetrarches ,] from [tetras ,] four, and [arche ,] government, properly signifies a prince, or ruler over a quarter of any region; and had its origin from Galatia, which was governed by four princes. In the New Testament, however, it denotes a prince, or king, who reigns over the fourth part of a former kingdom. By Herod's will his kingdom was thus divided among his sons: Archelaus had one-half, consisting of Idumea, Judea, and Samaria; Herod Antipas, one-fourth, consisting of Galilee and Perea; and Philip the remaining fourth, consisting of Batanea, Trachonitis, and Auranitis.

he.

21:25; Isa 22:5; Mic 7:4

19; Mt 17:10; Mr 6:15; 8:28; Joh 1:21

John.

And he.

13:31,32; 23:8