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Mat 14:1-12. Herod thinks Jesus a resurrection of the murdered Baptist - Account of his imprisonment and death. ( = Mar 6:14-29; Luk 9:7-9).
The time of this alarm of Herod Antipas appears to have been during the mission of the Twelve, and shortly after the Baptist - who had been in prison for probably more than a year - had been cruelly put to death.
Herod’s theory of the works of Christ (Mat 14:1, Mat 14:2).
At that time Herod the tetrarch - Herod Antipas, one of the three sons of Herod the Great, and own brother of Archelaus (Mat 2:22), who ruled as ethnarch over Galilee and Perea.
heard of the fame of Jesus - “for His name was spread abroad” (Mar 6:14).