Mark 6:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

Mark 6:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 21:26
But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
Matthew 14:5
And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
2 Chronicles 24:15-22
But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died. …
John 5:35
He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
Ezekiel 33:32
And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

Topics

Devotion Government Herod John Minister, Christian

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. For Herod feared John--but, as Bengel notes, John feared not Herod. knowing that he was a just man and an holy--Compare the case of Elijah with Ahab, after the murder of Naboth (1Ki 21:20). and observed him--rather, as in the Margin, “kept” or “saved him”; that is, from the wicked designs of Herodias, who had been watching for some pretext to get Herod entangled and committed to despatch him.…