Matthew 14:1 meaning and explanation

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus

Matthew 14:1, Berean Standard Bible

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Matthew opens this chapter by placing Jesus' ministry against the court of Herod Antipas, called tetrarch because he ruled a quarter of his father Herod the Great's territory, Galilee and Perea. Reports of Jesus' teaching and miracles had reached the ruler, and the verses that follow show his guilty reaction: he decides Jesus must be John the Baptist raised from the dead.

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