But Herod, when he had news of it, said, John, whom I put to death, has come back from the dead.
They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.
And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he has come back from the dead, and so these powers are working in him.
Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.
But others said, It is Elijah. And others said, It is a prophet, even like one of the prophets.
For Herod himself had sent men out to take John and put him in prison, because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had taken for himself.
And Herod said, I put John to death: but who is this, of whom such stories are given to me? And he had a desire to see him.