Seasons of feasting and revelry are seasons of great danger; and when attended with dancing and profaneness, render persons peculiarly liable to be overcome by temptation, and to fall under the power of the destroyer.
Verse Matthew 14:6. _HEROD'S BIRTH-DAY_] Either the day in which he was _born_, or the day on which he _began to reign_; for both were termed _birth-days_. See 1 Samuel 13:1, and Hosea 7:5. The kings...
See also Mark 6:21. But when Herod’s birthday was come Kings were accustomed to observe the day of their birth with much pomp, and commonly, also, by giving a feast to their principal nobility. See Ge...
2. JOHN'S MARTYRDOM. The Fourfold Attitude of the Rejected King. CHAPTER 14 1. John's Martyrdom. (Matthew 14:1 .) 2. The Disciples of John with the Lord Jesus. (Matthew 14:12 .) 3. Feeding the Five...
HEROD AND JESUS. THE END OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (Mark 6:14 *, Luke 9:7, _cf._ Luke 3:18). Mt.'s narrative is much briefer than Mk.'s, and he goes astray. Thus in Mat
At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus, and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptizer. He has been raised from the dead, and because of this, these deeds of power work in...
THE TRAGIC DRAMA OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (Matthew 14:1-12)...
KEPT. being celebrated. THE DAUGHTER. Salome (Josephus, _Antiquities_ xviii. 5. 4). HERODIAS. See App-109. BEFORE THEM. in the midst of them: i.e. in public....
Matthew 14:1-12. Herod the Tetrarch puts to death John the Baptist Mark 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 p...
_the daughter of Herodias_ Salome; she was afterwards married to her uncle Herod-Philip, the tetrarch, and on his death to Aristobulus, grandson of Herod the Great. _danced before them_ Some sort of p...
ΓΕΝΕΣΊΟΙΣ ΓΕΝΟΜΈΝΟΙΣ, for γενεσίων γενομένων. The dative has decisive authority. The gen. abs. a grammatical note, which has come into the text as the easier reading. 6. ΓΕΝΕΣΊΟΙΣ ΓΕΝΟΜΈΝΟΙΣ. Dative o...
HEROD THE TETRARCH PUTS TO DEATH JOHN THE BAPTIST Mark 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...
Ver 6. But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. 7. Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. 8. And she, being...
_JOHN WAS KILLED AND JESUS CARED MATTHEW 14:1-12:_ Hatred leads people to do and say terrible things to one another. John had told Herod the Tetrarch that it was not right for him to have his brother,...
ΓΕΝΕΣΊΟΙΣ _dat. pl. от_ ΓΕΝΈΣΙΑ (G1077) празднование дня рождения (RAC, 9:21743; SB, 1:680-82). ΓΕΝΟΜΈΝΟΙΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part. dat. pl. от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, случаться. _Dat._ является...
BUT WHEN HEROD'S BIRTH-DAY WAS KEPT— If Herod's resentment of the freedom which John the Baptist took with him was great, that of Herodias was much greater. The crime that she was guilty of was odious...
SECTION 33 JESUS HEARS OF THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (Parallels: Mark 6:14-29; Luke 9:7-9) TEXT: 14:1-13a 1 At that season Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, 2 and said...
_FOR HEROD HAD LAID HOLD ON JOHN, AND BOUND HIM, AND PUT HIM IN PRISON FOR HERODIAS' SAKE, HIS BROTHER PHILIP'S WIFE._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
37 The history of the kingdom proclamation in Acts and what is predicted the circumcision epistles and the Unveiling fully bears out our Lord's forecast. There were the seven sons of Sceva (Act_19:15)...
3 See Lev_18:1620:21. 6-12 Compare Mar_6:21-29. 13-15 Compare Mar_6:30-36; Luk_9:10-12 Joh_6:1-7. 13 Herod's insistence that the Lord was John the baptist was not very reassuring, for He was almost...
EXECUTION OF THE BAPTIST (Mark 6:21). The dramatic circumstances of the death of John are recorded only in the Gospels. Josephus simply says, 'Accordingly he was sent a prisoner, out of Herod's suspic...
BIRTHDAY] One of the Greek customs introduced by the Herods. The Hebrews regarded the keeping of birthdays as a part of idolatrous worship. THE DAUGHTER] Her name was Salome. She soon afterwards marri...
DEATH OF THE BAPTIST. FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND. WALKING ON THE SEA 1, 2. Herod's opinion of Jesus (Mark 6:14; Luke 9:7)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 JOHN THE *BAPTIST DIES 14:1-12 V1 At that time, the ruler called Herod heard reports about Jesus. V2 So he spoke to his servants....
HEROD’S BIRTHDAY. — Some critics have looked on the feast as one commemorating Herod’s accession — his birth-day as a ruler; but there seems no reason for not accepting the word in its simple natural...
CHAPTER 12 The Crisis in Galilee Matthew 14:1 - Matthew 15:1 - Matthew 16:1. THE lives of John and of Jesus, lived so far apart, and with so little intercommunication, have yet been interwoven in a...
_Death of the Baptist_ (Mark 6:14-29; Luke 9:7-9). This section might with advantage have been given as a short chapter by itself, and a new start made with the feeding of the thousands which forms th...
γενεσίοις γενομένοις : one expects the genitive absolute as in T.R., which just on that account is to be suspected. The dative of time. But _cf._ Mark 6:21, where we have γενομένης and γενεσίοις occur...
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE Matthew 14:1-12 In the terror arising from his stricken conscience, Herod made confidants of his slaves, overleaping the barriers of position in his need of some ears into wh...
The presence and activity of the true King filled the false ruler with alarm. Herod sacrificed John to his lust. Once Herod had heard John, and the remembrance of former conviction was still with him,...
But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased (b) Herod. (b) There were three Herods: the first of them was Antipater's son, who is also called Ascaloniu...
"At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, (2) And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
6._And when Herod’s birthday was kept. _The Evangelists now begin to relate the stratagem by which Herodias at length succeeded in a design which she had long meditated, the taking away of John’s life...
Our Gospel resumes the historical course of these revelations, but in such a manner as to exhibit the spirit by which the people were animated. Herod (loving his earthly power and his own glory more t...
BUT WHEN HEROD'S BIRTHDAY WAS KEPT,.... The birthdays of princes, both of their coming into the world, and accession to the throne of government, were kept by the Gentiles; as by the Egyptians, Genesi...
But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. Ver. 6. _But when Herod's birthday was kept_] All this was a mere plot, as St Mark also intimateth,...
_For Herod had laid hold on John_ Had formerly seized him; _and put him in prison for Herodias's sake_ On account of the reproof which John gave him for marrying Herodias, _his brother Philip's wife_...
BUT WHEN HEROD'S BIRTHDAY WAS KEPT, THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS DANCED BEFORE THEM, AND PLEASED HEROD....
The birthday feast:...
Now authority in high places is seen to reject Him too, by the deliberate rejection of His forerunner and servant John the Baptist. When King Herod hears of His fame, his conscience is troubled, feari...
1-12 The terror and reproach of conscience, which Herod, like other daring offenders, could not shake off, are proofs and warnings of a future judgment, and of future misery to them. But there may be...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 14:7"....
Matthew 14:6 But G1161 Herods G2264 birthday G1077 celebrated G71 (G5746) daughter G2364 Herodias G2266 danced G3738 ...
‘But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among the people gathered (‘in the midst'), and pleased Herod.' And then there had been an unfortunate occurrence for a man whose life...
THE FORERUNNER IS REJECTED BY THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES AND PUT TO DEATH (14:3-12). A warning of what lies ahead for Jesus in the future is now introduced. For John, His forerunner has been put to death b...
Matthew 14:6. HEROD'S BIRTHDAY. Probably the anniversary of his accession to power. The nobility of Galilee were at the feast (Mark 6:21). The dancing seems to have taken place late in the entertainme...
CHRONOLOGY. The chapter opens with an indefinite mark of time (‘at that season,' Matthew 14:1); but Luke 9:10 shows that it was upon the return of the Twelve. Hence chaps, Matthew 9:35-38;...
WHEN HEROD'S BIRTHDAY CAME (γενεσιοις γενομενοις του Hηρωιδου). Locative of time (cf. Mark 6:21) without the genitive absolute. The earlier Greeks used the word γενεσια for funeral commemorations (b...
CONTENTS: Herod's troubled conscience and the murder of John the Baptist. The 5000 fed. Jesus walks on the water. CHARACTERS: Jesus, John the Baptist, Herod, Herodias, and her daughter, disciples. CO...
Matthew 14:2. _This is John the baptist: he is risen from the dead._ Mark indicates that Herod was a sadducee by those words of Christ, Beware of the leaven of the sadducees beware of the leaven of He...
ON HEROD'S BIRTHDAY. The Herodian princes imitated the Roman emperors, by celebrating their birthdays with a feast, which was a "wild party." THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS. Salome the daughter of Herod's b...
_Herod the tetratch heard of the fame of Jesus._ A COURT PREACHER Herod is favourable to John, how could he be more unfortunate than to strike in the face the king who protects him? Is not the confid...
HEROD KILLS JOHN THE BAPTIST MATTHEW 14:1-12; MARK 6:14-29; LUKE 9:7-9; MATTHEW 14:1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jes
CHAPTER 14 The first eleven verses of this chapter relate to the decollation of John the Baptist, of which I have spoken at length on the sixth chapter of S. Mark. _His Body_ : Syriac, _sclado_, i.e....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 14:1. AT THAT TIME.—_Season_ (R.V.). In our idiom we should bring out the idea by giving a somewhat different turn to the expression, viz., _about_ that time (_Morison_). HERO...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 14:1 CHRIST'S POWER TO SUPPLY AND PROTECT AND HEAL, PREFACED BY A STATEMENT OF HEROD'S RELATION T
And at that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus. And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he's risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in...
Daniel 5:1; Esther 1:10; Esther 1:2; Esther 2:18; Genesis 40:20;...
Birthday [γ ε ν ε σ ι ο ι ς]. Though some explain it as the anniversary of Herod's accession. The custom of celebrating birthdays by festivities was not approved by the strict Jews; but it is claimed...
The daughter of Herodias — Afterward infamous for a life suitable to this beginning....
Several observables are here to be taken notice of. 1. The time of this execrable murder: it was upon eastern kings to celebrate their birth-days: Pharaoh's birth-day was kept, Genesis 40:20. Herod's...