But when Herod heard of it he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised.”
There they are, in great terror, in terror such as has not been! For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.
and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist, he has been raised from the dead; that is why these powers are at work in him.”
saying, “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”
But others said, “It is Elijah.” And others said, “It is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”
For Herod had sent and seized John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodi-as, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.
Herod said, “John I beheaded; but who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he sought to see him.