Glossa Ordinaria: After the preaching of Christ's disciples and the working of miracles, the Evangelist fittingly adds an acco…

The Herod mentioned here is Antipas (son of Herod the Great and Malthace), tetrarch of Galilee and Perea. Mark may be using the title of “King” her…

Others said that it is Elias
This was the opinion, either of many of the Jews, who expected that Elias the Tishbite …

Herod feared John while he lived, and feared him still more when he was dead. Herod did many of those things which John in his preaching taught him…