He is really John the Baptist. Herod was a Sadducee, and they did not believe in a life after death. But his guilt makes him think John the Baptist had come back from the dead. That is why. John the Baptist did not do miracles (John 10:41). Herod thought that being raised from death had given John the Baptist new powers. (Others thought this also. See Matthew 16:14; Mark 8:28).

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Old Testament