Herod Antipas

1st century AD tetrarch of Galilee and Perea

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A first-century tetrarch of Galilee and Perea whose name threads through the trial of Jesus and the execution of John the Baptist — two deaths that fixed him in Christian memory as a figure of tyranny and persecution.

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Herod Antipas was the son of Herod the Great and inherited a quarter-share of his father's realm after the elder's death around 4 BC, ruling Galilee and Perea as a Roman client. He built Sepphoris and founded the city of Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, naming it for the emperor who kept him in power. His divorce of Phasa'el, daughter of the Nabataean king Aretas IV, to marry Herodias — his half-brother's former wife — earned him the public condemnation of John the Baptist, whom Antipas had arrested and then executed at Machaerus. The affair also sparked a ruinous border war with Aretas that le…

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(To Salome who had danced in his honour) Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you. [...] Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom.

— Gospel of Mark 6:22-23 NKJV.

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(To his courtiers, after hearing about Jesus' fame) This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.

— Matthew 14:2 NKJV.

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