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Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Luk 9:7) | 4 sn John refers to John the Baptist, whom Herod had beheaded (v. 9). |
| (0.62) | (Act 13:1) | 4 sn Herod is generally taken as a reference to Herod Antipas, who governed Galilee from 4 b.c. to a.d. 39, who had John the Baptist beheaded, and who is mentioned a number of times in the gospels. |
| (0.62) | (Luk 9:9) | 1 tn Grk “John I beheaded”; John’s name is in emphatic position in the Greek text. The verb is causative, since Herod would not have personally carried out the execution. |
| (0.44) | (Act 12:2) | 1 sn The expression executed with a sword probably refers to a beheading. James was the first known apostolic martyr (Eusebius, Eccl. Hist. 2.9.1-3). On James, not the Lord’s brother, see Luke 5:10; 6:14. This death ended a short period of peace noted in Acts 9:31 after the persecution mentioned in 8:1-3. |
