Thy brother's wife (την γυναικα του αδελφου). While the brother was alive (Leviticus 18:16; [Reference Leviticus 20:21…

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 “passion narratives”: the passion of John and the passion of the Messiah. Mark devotes fourteen verses to the death of John b…

For John had said to Herod
He had been personally with him, and had plainly and freely told him of his sin, and fait…

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…