1 Machabæorum 14:1

Clementine Latin Vulgate

In illo tempore audivit Herodes tetrarcha fama Jesu :

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
In illo tempore audivit Herodes tetrarcha famam Jesu:

Nova Vulgata (1979)
In illo tempore audivit He rodes tetrarcha famam Iesu

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Herod: This was Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great, by Malthace, and tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, which produced a revenue of 200 talents a year. He married the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia, whom he divorced in order to marry Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, who was still living. Aretas, to revenge the affront which Herod had offered his daughter, declared war against him, and vanquished him after an obstinate engagement. This defeat, Josephus assures us, the Jews considered as a punishment for the death of John the Baptist. Having gone to Rome to solicit the title of king, he was accused by Agrippa of carrying on a correspondence with Artabanus king of Parthia, against the Romans, and was banished by the emperor Caius to Lyons, and thence to Spain, where he and Herodias died in exile. Mark 6:14-16, Mark 8:15, Luke 9:7-9, Luke 13:31, Luke 13:32, Luke 23:8-12, Luke 23:15, Acts 4:27

Tetrarch: Luke 3:1

Reciprocal: Joshua 6:27 - his fame Matthew 4:24 - his fame Matthew 9:26 - the fame hereof Matthew 14:9 - the king Matthew 14:13 - General Acts 13:1 - Herod

Gill's Notes on the Bible

At that time Herod the tetrarch,.... Not Herod the Great, in whose reign Christ was born, and who slew the infants of Bethlehem, but his son; this was, as the Jewish chronologer c rightly observes,

"Herod Antipater, whom they call טיתרקי, "the tetrarch"; the son of Herod the First, and brother of Archelaus, and the third king of the family of Herod.''

And though he is here called a "tetrarch", he is in Mark 6:14 called a king: the reason of his being styled a "tetrarch" was this; his father Herod divided his large kingdom into four parts, and bequeathed them to his sons, which was confirmed by the Roman senate: Archelaus reigned in Judea in his stead; upon whose decease, that part was put under the care of a Roman governor; who, when John the Baptist began to preach, was Pontius Pilate; this same Herod here spoken of, being "tetrarch" of Galilee, which was the part assigned him; and his brother Philip "tetrarch" of Ituraea, and of the region of Trachonitis; and Lysanias, "tetrarch" of Abilene, Luke 3:1 the word "tetrarch": signifying one that has the "fourth" part of government: and in Munster's Hebrew Gospel, he is called "one of the four princes"; and in the Arabic version, "a prince of the fourth part"; and in the Persic, a "governor of the fourth part of the kingdom". The "time" referred to, was after the death of John the Baptist; and when Christ had been for a good while, and in many places, preaching and working miracles; the particular instant which respect is had unto, is the sending forth of the twelve disciples to preach and work miracles; and which might serve the more to spread the fame of Christ, and which reached the court of Herod; who, it is said here,

heard of the fame of Jesus: what a wonderful preacher he was, and what mighty things were done by him.

c David Ganz. Tzemach David, par. 1. fol. 25. 2. and so in Juchasin, fol. 142. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Herod the tetrarch - See also Mark 6:14-16; Luke 9:7-9. This was a son of Herod the Great. Herod the Great died probably in the first year after the birth of Christ, and left his kingdom to his three sons, of whom this “Herod Antipas” was one. He ruled over Galilee and Perea. See the notes at Matthew 2:15. The title “tetrarch” literally denotes one who rules over a “fourth” part of any country. It came, however, to signify the governor or ruler of any province subject to the Roman emperor - Robinson, Lexicon.

Heard of the fame of Jesus - Jesus had been a considerable time engaged in the work of the ministry, and it may seem remarkable that he had not before heard of him. Herod might, however, have been absent on some expedition to a remote part of the country. It is to be remembered, also, that he was a man of much dissoluteness of morals, and that he paid little attention to the affairs of the people. He might have heard of Jesus before, but it had not arrested his attention. He did not think it a matter worthy of much regard.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIV.

Herod, having heard the fame of Christ, supposes him to be John

the Baptist, risen from the dead, 1, 2.

A circumstantial account of the beheading of John the Baptist,

3-12.

Five thousand men, besides women and children, fed with five

loaves and two fishes, 13-21.

The disciples take ship, and Jesus stays behind, and goes

privately into a mountain to pray, 22, 23.

A violent storm arises, by which the lives of the disciples are

endangered, 24.

In their extremity, Jesus appears to them, walking upon the

water, 25-27.

Peter, at the command of his Master, leaves the ship, and walks

on the water to meet Christ, 28-31.

They both enter the ship, and the storm ceases, 32, 33.

They come into the land of Gennesaret, and he heals many

diseased people, 34-36.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIV.

Verse Matthew 14:1. Herod the tetrarch — This was Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great. Matthew 2:1; Matthew 2:1, where an account is given of the Herod family. The word tetrarch properly signifies a person who rules over the fourth part of a country; but it is taken in a more general sense by the Jewish writers, meaning sometimes a governor simply, or a king; see Matthew 14:9. The estates of Herod the Great were not, at his death, divided into four tetrarchies, but only into three: one was given by the Emperor Augustus to Archelaus; the second to Herod Antipas, the person in the text; and the third to Philip: all three, sons of Herod the Great.