ἦραν τὸ πτῶμα καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτόν. There is in this some proof of forbearance, if not of kindness, on Herod’s part. He did not persecute John’s disciples, or prevent them paying the last offices to their master.
πτῶμα. Lat. cadaver, in this sense πτῶμα is followed by νεκροῦ, or by genitive of person in classical period as, Ἐτεοκλέους δὲ πτῶμα πολυνείκους τε ποῦ; Eur. Phoen. 1697.
MATTHEW 14:12 auvto,@n# On the one hand, the predominant external evidence attests auvto, (or its phonetic near-equivalent, auvtw|/), with only a* B 0106 ita syrc, s eth attesting...
Verse Matthew 14:12. _HIS DISCIPLES CAME, AND TOOK UP THE_ BODY] The HEAD was in the possession of _Herodias_, who, 'tis probable, took a diabolic pleasure in viewing that speechless mouth which had...
See also Mark 6:21. But when Herod’s birthday was come Kings were accustomed to observe the day of their birth with much pomp, and commonly, also, by giving a feast to their principal nobility. See Ge...
2. JOHN'S MARTYRDOM. The Fourfold Attitude of the Rejected King. CHAPTER 14 1. John's Martyrdom. (Matthew 14:1 .) 2. The Disciples of John with the Lord Jesus. (Matthew 14:12 .) 3. Feeding the Five...
HEROD AND JESUS. THE END OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (Mark 6:14 *, Luke 9:7, _cf._ Luke 3:18). Mt.'s narrative is much briefer than Mk.'s, and he goes astray. Thus in Mat
At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus, and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptizer. He has been raised from the dead, and because of this, these deeds of power work in...
THE TRAGIC DRAMA OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (Matthew 14:1-12)...
BODY. Mark 6:29 reads _ptoma =_ corpse....
_his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it_ There is in this some proof of forbearance, if not of kindness, on Herod's part. He did not persecute John's disciples, or prevent them paying...
Matthew 14:1-12. Herod the Tetrarch puts to death John the Baptist Mark 6:14-29, where the further conjectures as to the personality of Jesus are given, "Elias, a [or THE] prophet, or as one of the p...
Ver 6. But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. 7. Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. 8. And she, being...
_JOHN WAS KILLED AND JESUS CARED MATTHEW 14:1-12:_ Hatred leads people to do and say terrible things to one another. John had told Herod the Tetrarch that it was not right for him to have his brother,...
ΠΡΟΣΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor._ &ct. _part. (сопутств.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4334) приходить. ΉΡΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΑΪ Ρ Ω (G142) поднимать, уносить, ΠΤΏΜΑ (G4430) тело, труп, ΈΘΑΨΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΘΆΠΤΩ ...
SECTION 33 JESUS HEARS OF THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (Parallels: Mark 6:14-29; Luke 9:7-9) TEXT: 14:1-13a 1 At that season Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, 2 and said...
And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus. For the exposition of this section-one of the very few where all the four Evangelists run parallel-see the note...
3 See Lev_18:1620:21. 6-12 Compare Mar_6:21-29. 13-15 Compare Mar_6:30-36; Luk_9:10-12 Joh_6:1-7. 13 Herod's insistence that the Lord was John the baptist was not very reassuring, for He was almost...
37 The history of the kingdom proclamation in Acts and what is predicted the circumcision epistles and the Unveiling fully bears out our Lord's forecast. There were the seven sons of Sceva (Act_19:15)...
DEATH OF THE BAPTIST. FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND. WALKING ON THE SEA 1, 2. Herod's opinion of Jesus (Mark 6:14; Luke 9:7)....
EXECUTION OF THE BAPTIST (Mark 6:21). The dramatic circumstances of the death of John are recorded only in the Gospels. Josephus simply says, 'Accordingly he was sent a prisoner, out of Herod's suspic...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 JOHN THE *BAPTIST DIES 14:1-12 V1 At that time, the ruler called Herod heard reports about Jesus. V2 So he spoke to his servants....
HIS DISCIPLES CAME. — Among those who thus transferred their allegiance to their true Lord were, we must believe, the two whom John had sent to Him from his prison. From this time they probably ceased...
CHAPTER 12 The Crisis in Galilee Matthew 14:1 - Matthew 15:1 - Matthew 16:1. THE lives of John and of Jesus, lived so far apart, and with so little intercommunication, have yet been interwoven in a...
πτῶμα : carcase, used absolutely in this sense only in late writers. Earlier writers would say πτῶμα νεκροῦ. Lobeck, Phryn., 375....
_Death of the Baptist_ (Mark 6:14-29; Luke 9:7-9). This section might with advantage have been given as a short chapter by itself, and a new start made with the feeding of the thousands which forms th...
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE Matthew 14:1-12 In the terror arising from his stricken conscience, Herod made confidants of his slaves, overleaping the barriers of position in his need of some ears into wh...
The presence and activity of the true King filled the false ruler with alarm. Herod sacrificed John to his lust. Once Herod had heard John, and the remembrance of former conviction was still with him,...
"At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, (2) And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
Our Gospel resumes the historical course of these revelations, but in such a manner as to exhibit the spirit by which the people were animated. Herod (loving his earthly power and his own glory more t...
AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME,.... To the prison where his body was left, and to which they had liberty of recourse before; see Matthew 11:2 and very probably, upon hearing what was done, might apply to Her...
And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus. Ver. 12. _And his disciples came and took_] A pious and courteous office, such as Joseph of Arimathea boldly perf...
_And his disciples came and took up the body_ Which it seems had been thrown over the prison walls, without burial, probably by order of Herodias. _And buried it Laid it_, says Mark, doubtless with gr...
The reaction and its result:...
AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME, AND TOOK UP THE BODY, AND BURIED IT, AND WENT AND TOLD JESUS. Although Herod, here called king by courtesy, was sorry, touched for a moment with regret, and because, for the on...
Now authority in high places is seen to reject Him too, by the deliberate rejection of His forerunner and servant John the Baptist. When King Herod hears of His fame, his conscience is troubled, feari...
1-12 The terror and reproach of conscience, which Herod, like other daring offenders, could not shake off, are proofs and warnings of a future judgment, and of future misery to them. But there may be...
The disciples of John, in testimony of their respect to their master, and of their owning of his doctrine, and grateful remembrance of him, hearing what Herod had done, came and took up John's body, a...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X "[165]...
Matthew 14:12 Then G2532 his G846 disciples G3101 came G4334 (G5631) away G142 (G5656) body G4983 and...
‘And his disciples came, and took up the corpse, and buried him, and they went and told Jesus.' Then the faithful disciples of John came, no doubt devastated by the news, and took up John's corpse, an...
THE FORERUNNER IS REJECTED BY THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES AND PUT TO DEATH (14:3-12). A warning of what lies ahead for Jesus in the future is now introduced. For John, His forerunner has been put to death b...
Matthew 14:12. TOOK UP THE CORPSE AND BURIED HIM, is a literal rendering. And, they went, probably John's disciples. AND TOLD JESUS _._ They would naturally go to Him, if properly affected by the in...
CHRONOLOGY. The chapter opens with an indefinite mark of time (‘at that season,' Matthew 14:1); but Luke 9:10 shows that it was upon the return of the Twelve. Hence chaps, Matthew 9:35-38;...
AND THEY WENT AND TOLD JESUS (κα ελθοντες απηγγειλαν τω Ιησου). As was meet after they had given his body decent burial. It was a shock to the Master who alone knew how great John really was. The fa...
Matthew 14:12 _(with Matthew 28:8)_ The grave of the dead John, and the grave of the living Jesus. The grave of John was the end of a "school." The grave of Jesus was the beginning of a Church. Why?...
Matthew 14:10 I. If you consider the manner of John the Baptist's death, as Scripture brings it before us, I cannot help thinking that at first sight it will seem to you rather disappointing. The deat...
CONTENTS: Herod's troubled conscience and the murder of John the Baptist. The 5000 fed. Jesus walks on the water. CHARACTERS: Jesus, John the Baptist, Herod, Herodias, and her daughter, disciples. CO...
Matthew 14:2. _This is John the baptist: he is risen from the dead._ Mark indicates that Herod was a sadducee by those words of Christ, Beware of the leaven of the sadducees beware of the leaven of He...
THEN THEY WENT AND TOLD JESUS. John the Baptist had pointed out Jesus as the Messiah (John 3:25-36). In this time of deep sorrow, John's disciples look to Jesus for sympathy and help....
_And went and told Jesus._ SALVE FOR THE SORE HEART I commend the behaviour of these disciples- 1. To all who are sinful and unpardoned. Go and tell Jesus the unpardoned sins of your life. 2. To a...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 14:12 John’s DISCIPLES remained loyal to him throughout his imprisonment. They now buried him, since all of John’s family was probably dead (“advanced in years”;...
HEROD KILLS JOHN THE BAPTIST MATTHEW 14:1-12; MARK 6:14-29; LUKE 9:7-9; MATTHEW 14:1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jes
CHAPTER 14 The first eleven verses of this chapter relate to the decollation of John the Baptist, of which I have spoken at length on the sixth chapter of S. Mark. _His Body_ : Syriac, _sclado_, i.e....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 14:1. AT THAT TIME.—_Season_ (R.V.). In our idiom we should bring out the idea by giving a somewhat different turn to the expression, viz., _about_ that time (_Morison_). HERO...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 14:1 CHRIST'S POWER TO SUPPLY AND PROTECT AND HEAL, PREFACED BY A STATEMENT OF HEROD'S RELATION T
And at that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus. And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he's risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in...
Acts 8:2; Matthew 27:58...
The disciples of John hearing that their holy master was thus basely and barbarously murdered, took up his dead body and buried it. Whence we learn, that the faithful servants of God are not ashamed...