Mark 6:14

The Murder of John the Baptist

14. And king Herod heard of him This first missionary journey of the Apostles was but short, and they would seem to "have returned to Capernaum as early as the evening of the second day," Bp. Ellicott's Gospel History, p. 196. This Herod was Herod Antipas, to whom, on the death of Herod the Great, had fallen the tetrarchy of Ituræa and Peræa. He is here called "king," or "prince," in the ancient and wide sense of the word. St Matt. (Mark 14:1), and St Luke (Luke 9:7), style him more exactly "the tetrarch."

his name It is peculiar to St Mark that he connects the watching observation of Herod Antipas with the work of Christ as extended by the preaching and miracles of His Apostles.

was risen from the dead Herod's guilty conscience triumphed over his Sadducean profession of belief that there is no resurrection. Comp. Matthew 16:6; Mark 8:15.