King Herod heard about Jesus, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying, "John the Baptist has been raised ...

T he Gospel of Mark provides a biblical narrative of John the Baptist's final moments. It hints that Herod Antipas, the Tetrarch of Galilee, was led towards a fatal decision against John the ...

But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men ...

Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...

John the Baptist was killed because he was critical of the contemporary Herodian ruler, Herod Antipas. All of the sources agree on that, both Josephus and the testimony of the gospels. Exactly ...