Mark 6:14

And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him. AND KING HEROD - that is, Herod Antipas, one of the three sons of Herod the Great, and own brother of Archelaus (), who ruled as Ethnarch over Galilee and Perea. HEARD OF HIM; (FOR HIS NAME WAS SPREAD ABROAD:) AND HE SAID - "unto his servants" (), his councillors or court-ministers, THAT JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND THEREFORE MIGHTY WORKS DO SHOW FORTH THEMSELVES IN HIM. The murdered prophet haunted his guilty breast like a spector, and seemed to him alive again and clothed with unearthly powers, in the person of Jesus....

14-29 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; but it is not enough to do many things, we must have respect to all the commandments. Herod respected John, till he touched him in his Herodias. Thus many love good preaching, if it keep far away from their beloved sin. But it is better that sinners persecute ministers now for faithfulness, than curse them eternally for unfaithfulness. The ways of God are unsearchable; but we may be sure he never can be at a loss to repay his servants for what they endure or lose for his sake. Death could not come so as to surprise this holy man; and the triumph of the wicked was short....

Verse Mark 6:14. _AND KING HEROD HEARD?_] την ακιην αοτου, _his fame_, is added by KM, _fifteen_ others, and in the margin of several. It seems necessary to complete the sense....

See this account of the death of John the Baptist fully explained in the notes at Matthew 14:1. Mark 6:20 FOR HEROD FEARED JOHN - That is, he stood in awe of him on account of his sanctity, and his boldness and fearlessness in reproving sin. KNOWING THAT HE WAS A JUST MAN AND AN HOLY - A holy, pious, upright, honest man - a man who would not be afraid of him, or afraid to speak his real sentiments. AND OBSERVED HIM - Margin, “kept him, or saved him.” This does not mean that he “observed” or obeyed his teachings, but that he kept him in safe custody in order to preserve him from the machinations of Herodias. He was willing to show his respect for John, a

EXPOSITION MARK 6:1 Our Lord now left the neighbourhood of Capernaum, and came INTO HIS OWN COUNTRY, the district of Nazareth, where he had been, not born indeed, but brought up, and where his kinsfolk after the flesh still lived. Nazareth would be about a day's journey from Capernaum. This was not the first public exercise of his ministry at Nazareth. Of that and its results St. Luke gives us the account (Luke 4:16). It would seem reasonable to suppose that, after the fame which he had now acquired, he should again visit the place where he had been brought up. His sisters were still living there. St. Mark here again uses the historical present ἔρχεται, "he cometh," for which there is better authority than for ἧλθεν_. _HIS

AND KING HEROD HEARD [OF HIM],.... "Of Jesus", as the Syriac version supplies it; or "the miracles of Jesus", as the Persic version. This Herod here called a king, as he might be by his courtiers, and the common people, is the same with the Tetrarch in Matthew 14:1, for he was only Tetrarch of Galilee. This was Herod Antipater, the son of Herod the Great; the fame of Jesus reached his ears, he being governor of those parts, which were mostly visited by Christ: FOR HIS NAME WAS SPREAD ABROAD; by means of his ministry and miracles, and through those of his disciples, whom he had sent two by two into all parts of the country: AND HE SAID THAT JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND THEREFORE MIGHTY WORKS DO SHOW FORTH THEMSELVES IN HIM; for Herod had some time before put John to death; and hearing of these wonderful things that were done

HEROD Son of the Herod of our Lord's nativity; also vs. (Mark 1:16); (Mark 1:20). See margin reference, (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 14:1). _...

MARK 6:14 kai. e;legon {B} The plural e;legon, read by B W ita, b, d, ff2 and supported by the intention of Dgr (evle,gosan), seems to be the original reading. Copyists altered it to e;legen in agreement with h;kousen, not observing that after the words kai. h;kousen o` basileu.j ~Hrw,|dhj the sentence is suspended, in order to introduce parenthetically three specimens of the opinions held about Jesus (kai. e;legon … a;lloi de. e;legon … a;lloi de. e;legon), and is taken up again at ver....

CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Servant rejected in Nazareth. (Mark 6:1. Matthew 13:54; Luke 4:16)_ 2. The Servant sends forth the Twelve. (Mark 6:7 .Matthew 10:5; Luke 9:1) 3. King Herod troubled. (Mark 6:14. Matthew 14:1; Luke 9:7)...

HEROD AND JESUS. THE END OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. Wellhausen, J. Weiss, and Klostermann would begin a new period with this section the period of constant wandering, in which Jesus is mostly outside Galilee, _e.g._ in the districts of Tyre and Sidon (Mark 7:24), Decapolis (Mark 7:31), Bethsaida (Mark 8:22), Cæ sarea Philippi (Mark 8:27). The restless journeying across the lake, and the avoidance of Galilee, would be explained by the fact that the suspicions of Herod have been aroused. This characterisation of the period is correct and the hint as to its cause is also probable (_cf._ L