“At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, tetrarch: or, governor over four provinces”
Here is in John an example of an invincible courage, which all faithful Ministers of God’s word ought to follow: in Herod, an example of tyrannous vanity, pride and cruelty, and to be short, of a courtly conscience, and of their insufferable slavery, which have once given themselves over to pleasures: in Herodias and her daughter, an example of whore-like wantonness, and womanlike cruelty. Cross references: : Mark 6:14 ; Luke 9:7