Herod Antipas’ mind almost flashes back when he hears John’s name, thinking back to the scene in which he and his wife and daughter became responsible for the death of John the Baptist.

The 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 ...

Salome receives the head of John the Baptist in this early 17th century painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. In the Bible, Herod Antipas ordered the Christian preacher beheaded for ...

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

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 ...

where Judea is under Roman rule and Herod Antipas holds power, setting the stage for John's extraordinary life and ultimate sacrifice. "John the Baptist was born to be a holy messenger," Scorsese ...

It was “in the days of King Herod of Judea,” says the Gospel of ... Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John” (Luke 1:13). And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and ...

Salome, consulting her mother, asked for the head of John the Baptist, who was already in Herod’s prison, on a platter. In the cycle of the life of Christ, there is no more important figure than ...

Herod sentenced his own wife to death, suspecting her of plotting to kill him: ‘Mariamne Leaving the Judgement Seat of Herod,’ by painter John William Waterhouse ... also called King Herod, or Herod ...