7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;



Ver. 7. And he was perplexed] Pendebat, animi dubius. He stood amused and amazed: he stuck in the mud, as it were, and could find no way out. This is the import of the Greek word äéçðïñåé . Thus the wicked in the fulness of his sufficiency is in straits, as Zophar hath it, Job_15:22.