The Gospel story further villainizes Herod, whose son, also called King Herod, or Herod Antipas, was ruling at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion around 30 C.E. Herod may have been a splendid ...

Jealousy. Lust. Greed. Murder. The difference is, it's for real. Herod Antipas, the tetrach of Galilee during the Roman Empire, divorced his wife, Phasaelis, and unlawfully married Herodias ...

According to the gospels it was Herod's son, Herod Antipas, who mocked Jesus following his arrest in Jerusalem and then sent him back to the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate for trial and execution.