Herod’s Desire to See Jesus
7 Herod the tetrarch 9:7 Lk 3:1,19; 13:31; 23:7; Ac 13:1 heard about everything that was going on. 9:7–9 Mt 14:1–2; Mk 6:14–16 He was perplexed, because some said that John had been raised from the dead, 8 some that Elijah had appeared, 9:8 Mt 11:14; 16:14; 17:3–4,10–12; Lk 1:17; 4:26 and others that one of the ancient prophets had risen. 9:8 Mk 6:159 "I beheaded John," Herod said, "but who is this I hear such things about? " And he wanted to see him. 9:9 Lk 23:8