Matthew 14:1 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹ About that time Herod the tetrarch [Note: This man was the son of Herod the Great (See 2:1 and governor of that district] heard the report about what Jesus had been saying and doing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ AT THAT time Herod the governor heard the reports about Jesus,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ At that season Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

Common English Bible

¹ At that time Herod the ruler heard the news about Jesus.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ In that time, Herod the Tetrarch heard the news about Jesus.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ AT that time Herod the Tetrarch heard the fame of Jesus.

Matthew 14:1 Cross References

Matthew 13:58

So, He did not perform very many supernatural deeds in that place because of the people’s lack of faith.

Matthew 9:26

And the report of this incident spread all over the district.

Matthew 9:31

But [instead], they went all over the district telling people about Him.

Mark 8:15

Then Jesus ordered them, saying, “Pay attention and watch out for the leavening [effect] of the Pharisees and Herod.” [Note: By “Herod” is probably meant the Herodians, who were a party favorable to King Herod and, along with the Pharisees and Sadducees, were out to get Jesus. See Matt. 16:6].

Luke 23:15

or Herod have brought [against him]. For Herod sent him back to us and now I find that he has not done anything deserving of death.

Luke 3:1

Now it was the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was ruler of Galilee, his brother Philip was ruler of the regions of Ituraea and Trachonitus [Note: These two men were sons of Herod the Great (See Matt. 2:1) and ruled over provinces east of the Jordan River] and Lysanias was ruler of Abilene [Note: This was a province just north of the two previously mentioned ones].

Luke 3:19

But because he had rebuked Herod, the tetrarch [i.e., the governor of the fourth part of a region], for [marrying] his brother’s wife Herodias, and for all the other bad things he had done,

Luke 8:3

and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s property manager, and Susanna and many others. These [all] had provided the material support for the group from their own means.

Acts 12:1

Now about that time King Herod began a persecution of certain people in the [Jerusalem] church. [Note: This man was the grandson of Herod the Great. See Matt. 2:1].

Acts 13:1

Now in the church at Antioch there were [these] prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Symeon, called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch [i.e., governor of Galilee], and Saul.

Acts 4:27

For [truly] it was both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, who gathered together in this city [of Jerusalem] against your Holy Servant Jesus