He would not reject her (ουκ ηθελησεν αθετησα αυτην). He was caught once again between his conscience and his environment. Like ma…

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

Herod was in a quandary, but “because of his oaths and his dinner guests,” he could hardly refuse the girl. Reluctantly he ordered an executioner t…

And the king being sorry. His heart, as we have said, was no longer influenced by religious sentiments; but, foreseeing the detestation th…

And the king was exceeding sorry
(See Gill on Matthew 14:9)

yet for his oath's sake, [an…

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…