For Herod himself (Αυτος γαρ ο Hηρωιδης). Mark now proceeds to give the narrative of the death of John the Baptist some while befo…

For Herod himself had sent forth.—See Notes on Matthew 14:3-12.

Theophylact of Ohrid: The Evangelist Mark, taking his cue from what came before, here relates the death of the Forerunner, s…

Mark’s gospel has two “pa ion narratives”: the pa ion of John and the pa ion of the Me iah. Mark devotes fourteen verses to the death of John but o…

For Herod himself had sent forth Some of his guard, a detachment of soldiers,

and laid hold upon John<…

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…