And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That Yochanan the Immerser was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
For from you sounded out the word of YY not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to Elohim-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Yhudah, and Herod being tetrarch of Galil, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Y'shuw`a could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.
And he made in Yerushalayim engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.