For John said unto him, It is not (A)lawful for thee to have her.

And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a (B)Prophet.

But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased [a]Herod.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 14:6 There were three Herods: the first of them was Antipater’s son, who is also called Ascalonius, in whose reign Christ was born, and he it was that caused the children to be slain. The second was called Antipas, Magnus his son, whose mother’s name was Malthace or Martaca, and this was called Tetrarch, by reason of enlarging his dominion, when Archelaus was banished to Vienna in France. The third was Agrippa, Magnus his nephew by Aristobulus, and he it was that slew James.

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