Mark 6:14-16
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14 King Herod[a] heard about it, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying,(A) “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at work in him.”(B) 15 Others were saying, “He is Elijah”; still others, “He is a prophet like any of the prophets.”(C) 16 But when Herod learned of it, he said, “It is John whom I beheaded. He has been raised up.”
The Death of John the Baptist.[b]
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- 6:14 King Herod: see note on Mt 14:1.
- 6:17–29 Similarities are to be noted between Mark’s account of the imprisonment and death of John the Baptist in this pericope, and that of the passion of Jesus (Mk 15:1–47). Herod and Pilate, each in turn, acknowledges the holiness of life of one over whom he unjustly exercises the power of condemnation and death (Mk 6:26–27; 15:9–10, 14–15). The hatred of Herodias toward John parallels that of the Jewish leaders toward Jesus. After the deaths of John and of Jesus, well-disposed persons request the bodies of the victims of Herod and of Pilate in turn to give them respectful burial (Mk 6:29; 15:45–46).
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