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Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, ruled from 4 BCE to 39 CE over the Jewish provinces of Galilee and Parea. His official title was “tetrarch” (meaning “ruler of a fourth” of his father’s kingdom). By most standards, he was just an ordinary, local, Jewish ruler, but two incidents during his reign secured him a high place in the ...
Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, ruled from 4 BCE to 39 CE over the Jewish provinces of Galilee and Parea. His official title was “tetrarch” (meaning “ruler of a fourth” of his father’s kingdom). By most standards, he was just an ordinary, local, Jewish ruler, but two incidents during his reign secured him a high place in the ...
May 17, 2021 · Herod Antipas was known widely at the time for divorcing his first wife to marry the wife of his late half-brother. There are two Herods in the New Testament, and it is important to differentiate ...
Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, ruled from 4 BCE to 39 CE over the Jewish provinces of Galilee and Parea. His official title was “tetrarch” (meaning “ruler of a fourth” of his father’s kingdom). By most standards, he was just an ordinary, local, Jewish ruler, but two incidents during his reign secured him a high place in the ...
Herod Antipas, a son of Herod the Great by his Samaritan wife Malthace. He was tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea during the whole period of our Lord's life on earth ( Luke 23:7 ). He was a frivolous and vain prince, and was chargeable with many infamous crimes ( Mark 8:15 ; Luke 3:19 ; 13:31 , 32).
Herod's final will named him tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, and, despite a petition by Antipas to be made king of Judea instead of his older brother Archelaus, Augustus confirmed the will in 4 b.c. The subjects of Antipas's tetrarchy, in large part descended from pagans converted only a few generations before, were zealous and even fanatical Jews.
Nov 2, 2023 · Salome danced for Herod Antipas and, at Herodias’s direction, requested the beheading of John the Baptist. Later she married her great-uncle Philip the Tetrarch. Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee &: Perea (r. 4 B.C.E.–39 C.E.), was Herodias’s uncle and second husband. After Salome’s dance and his rash promise, he executed John the Baptist.
