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Luke 9:7

7-9. Herod's Alarm.

7. Herod the tetrarch Antipas. See Luke 3:1.

by him These words are omitted by א, B, C, D, L. The "all the things that had occurred" seems to be a special reference to the work of the Twelve which made our Lord's name more widely known.

it was said of some i.e. by some. 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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