16But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.
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Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-29)Here is, I. The wild notions that the people had concerning our Lord Jesus, Mark 6:15. His own countrymen could believe nothing great concerning him, because they knew his poor kindred; but others that were not under the power of that prejudice against him, were yet willing to believe any thing rather than the truth—that he was the Son of God, and the true Messias: they said, He is Elias, whom the…
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