1–12. HEROD THE TETRARCH PUTS TO DEATH JOHN THE BAPTIST
Mar 6:14-29, where the further conjectures as to the personality of Jesus are given, ‘Elias, a [or the] prophet, or as one of the prophets,’ and the whole account is narrated in the vivid dramatic manner of St Mark. St Luke relates the cause of the imprisonment, Luk 3:19-20; the conjectures as to Jesus, Luk 9:7-9.