Ἡρώδης. Antipas. See Luke 3:1.

τὰ γινόμενα πάντα. ‘All that was occurring.’ The words “by Him” of the Rec[201] are omitted by אBCDL. There seems to be a special reference to the work of the Twelve which made our Lord’s name more widely known.

[201] Rec. The Textus Receptus.

ὑπό τινων. To this opinion Herod’s guilty conscience made him sometimes incline, Mark 6:16. His alarm may have been intensified by the strong condemnation of his subjects, who, long afterwards, looked on his defeat by his injured father-in-law Aretas (Hareth) as a punishment for this crime (Jos. Antt. XVIII. 5, §§ 1, 2).

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