His corpse (το πτωμα αυτου). See on Mt 24:28. It was a mournful time for the disciples of John. "They went and told Jesus" ([Refer…

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

Mark ends the shocking story with John’s disciples coming for the body to give it proper burial. Herod no doubt thought that he was now finished wi…

His disciples came. One thing only remained to complete the woman’s cruelty. It was to leave the corpse of the holy man unburied; for ther…

And when his disciples heard of it
That is, when the disciples of John heard of this barbarous execution of their ma…

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…