Mark 6:16

It is John The words in the original, according to the best MSS., are very striking. John whom I (I myself;the pronoun "has the emphasis of a guilty conscience") beheaded this is he he is risen. Josephus confirms the account of these forebodings when he tells us that after the utter defeat of Herod Antipas by Aretas, the people regarded it as a righteous retribution for the murder of John (Jos. Ant. xviii. 5. 1, 2).