Mat 14:1-10, Luk 3:1, 19-20, 13:31-32, 23:7-11, Phili 4:22 | 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 14:1-10

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.

Herod.

4:12; Mr 6:17; Lu 3:19,20; Joh 3:23,24

Herodias'.This infamous woman was the daughter of Aristobulus and Bernice, and granddaughter of Herod the Great.

his.

Lu 13:1

Philip's.Herod Philip, son of Herod the Great and Mariamne.

Le 18:16; 20:21; De 25:5,6; 2Sa 12:7; 1Ki 21:19; 2Ch 26:18,19

Pr 28:1; Isa 8:20; Mr 6:18; Ac 24:24,25

when.

Mr 6:19,20; 14:1,2; Ac 4:21; 5:26

because.

21:26,32; Mr 11:30-32; Lu 20:6

birth-day.

Ge 40:20; Es 1:2-9; 2:18; Da 5:1-4; Ho 1:5,6; Mr 6:21-23

the daughter.

22:24

danced.

Es 1:10-12

before them. Gr. in the midst.

Es 5:3,6; 7:2

being.

2Ch 22:2,3; Mr 6:24

Give.

1Ki 18:4,13; 19:2; 2Ki 11:1; Pr 1:16; 29:10

a charger.

Nu 7:13,19,84,85; Ezr 1:9

the king.

1; Mr 6:14

sorry.

5; 27:17-26; Da 6:14-16; Mr 6:20,26; Lu 13:32; Joh 19:12-16

Ac 24:23-27; 25:3-9

the oath's.

Nu 30:5-8; Jud 11:30,31,39; 21:1,7-23; 1Sa 14:24,28,39-45; 25:22

1Sa 25:32-34; 28:10; 2Ki 6:31-33; Ec 5:2

and beheaded.

17:12; 21:35,36; 22:3-6; 23:34-36; 2Ch 36:16; Jer 2:30; Mr 6:27-29

Mr 9:13; Lu 9:9; Re 11:7

the prison.Josephus informs us that John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded by Herod in the strong castle of Machaerus, which he describes as situated about 60 stadia east of Jordan, not far from where the river discharges itself into the Dead Sea.

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 3:19-20

Pr 9:7,8; 15:12; Mt 11:2; 14:3,4; Mr 6:17,18

13:31-34; 2Ki 21:16; 24:4; 2Ch 24:17-22; 36:16; Ne 9:26; Jer 2:30

Mt 21:35-41; 22:6,7; 23:31-33; 1Th 2:15,16; Re 16:6

Luke 13:31-32

Get.

Ne 6:9-11; Ps 11:1,2; Am 7:12,13

that fox.This was probably Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, who is described by Josephus as a crafty and incestuous prince, with which the character given him by our Lord, and the narratives of the evangelists, exactly coincide.

3:19,20; 9:7-9; 23:8-11; Eze 13:4; Mic 3:1-3; Zep 3:3; Mr 6:26-28

I cast.

9:7; Mr 6:14; Joh 10:32; 11:8-10

I shall.

Joh 17:4,5; 19:30; *Gr:

Heb 2:10; 5:9

Luke 23:7-11

Herod's.

3:1; 13:31

for.

9:7-9; Mt 14:1; Mr 6:14

and he.

4:23; 2Ki 5:3-6,11; Ac 8:19

but.

13:32; Ps 38:13,14; 39:1,2,9; Isa 53:7; Mt 7:6; 27:14; Ac 8:32

1Pe 2:23

and vehemently.

2,5,14,15; 11:53; Ac 24:5

Herod.

Ac 4:27,28

set.

22:64,65; Ps 22:6; 69:19,20; Isa 49:7; 53:3; Mt 27:27-30; Mr 9:12

Mr 15:16-20

arrayed.

Joh 19:5

Philippians 4:22

the.

Ro 16:16; 2Co 13:13; Heb 13:24; 1Pe 5:13; 3Jo 1:14

they.

1:13

Caesar's.The cruel, worthless, and diabolical Nero was at this time emperor of Rome; but it is not improbable that the empress Poppaea was favourably inclined to Christianity, as Josephus relates that ([theosebes gar en ]) "she was a worshipper of the true God." Jerome states, (in Phm) that St. Paul had converted many in Caesar's family; for "being by the emperor cast into prison, he became more known to his family, and turned the house of Christ's persecutor into a church."