For Herod had laid hold on John. This Herodias was a granddaughter of Herod the Great. She was first married to Herod Philip, by whom she …

He feared the multitude — Mark, whose account is the most detailed of the three, adds that Herod himself feared John, knowing …

Neither he nor his illicit lover could bear such direct criticism, and so he would have silenced the rebuking tongue forever if he had not been res…

Glossa Ordinaria: The Evangelist had previously shown the Pharisees speaking falsely against Christ's miracles and, just befor…

Herod Antipas’s first wife was the daughter of Aretas (cf. 2 Corinthians 11:32), Arabian king of the Nabateans, whose land adjoined Per…

And though he wished to put him to death. There appears to be some contradiction between the accounts of Matthew and Mark