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, …

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 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…