Added (προσεθηκεν). First aorist active indicative (kappa aorist). Common verb (προστιθημ) in all Greek. In N.T. chiefly in Luke a…

But Herod the tetrarch.—See Notes on Matthew 14:3-5. Luke's anticipation of the close of the Baptist’s history supplies …

Origen of Alexandria: After John announced the coming of Christ, he preached the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the other thi…

“Herod” is Herod Antipas, mentioned in v.1. His wife, Herodias, had left his brother Philip to marry Herod. That marriage was one of his many sins,…

Added yet this above all
This sin to all other sins, and which was of a more flagitious nature; and attended with mo…

John the Baptist disowned being the Christ himself but confirmed the people in their expectations of the long-promised Messiah. He could only exhor…