“Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;”
Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was going on. And he was perplexed, because some were saying that John had been raised from the dead — Herod's perplexity at the reports of Jesus' ministry is the same confused identification as in Mark 6:14–16. The raising from the dead possibility communicates Herod's guilty conscience about John's execution — the most natural explanation of Jesus' powers, from Herod's perspective.
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