And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was widely known:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works reveal themselves in him.
And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones with. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.
But he went out, and began to make it known widely, and to report the matter far and wide, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was outside in uninhabited places: and they came to him from every quarter.
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
For from you the word of the Lord has gone out not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God is made known; so that we need not speak anything.