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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Matthew 14"
description: "CHAPTER 14   :-. HEROD THINKS
JESUS A RESURRECTION
OF THE MURDERED
BAPTIST—ACCOUNT
OF HIS IMPRISONMENT
AND DEATH. ( =
Mark 6:14-29; Luke 9:7-9). The time"
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CHAPTER 14

. HEROD THINKS
JESUS A RESURRECTION
OF THE MURDERED
BAPTIST—ACCOUNT
OF HIS IMPRISONMENT
AND DEATH. ( =
[Mark 6:14-29](../../../kjv/mark/6/14-29); [Luke 9:7-9](../../../kjv/luke/9/7-9)).
The time of this alarm of Herod
Antipas appears to have been during the mission of the Twelve, and
shortly after the Baptist—who had been in prison for probably more
than a year—had been cruelly put to death.
*Herod's Theory of the Works of
Christ* ([Matthew 14:1](../../../kjv/matthew/14/1); [Matthew 14:2](../../../kjv/matthew/14/2)).

**1. At that time Herod the
tetrarch**—Herod Antipas, one of the three sons of Herod the
Great, and own brother of Archelaus (), who ruled as *ethnarch* over Galilee and Perea.
**heard of the fame of
Jesus**—"for His name was spread abroad" ().

**2. And said unto his servants**—his
counsellors or court-ministers.
**This is John the Baptist: he
is risen from the dead,** c.—The murdered prophet haunted his
guilty breast like a specter and seemed to him alive again and
clothed with unearthly powers in the person of Jesus.
*Account of the Baptist's
Imprisonment and Death* (). For the exposition of this portion, see on .
. HEARING OF THE
BAPTIST'S DEATH,
JESUS CROSSES
THE LAKE WITH
TWELVE, AND MIRACULOUSLY
FEEDS FIVE
THOUSAND. ( = [Mark 6:30-44](../../../kjv/mark/6/30-44)
[Luke 9:10-17](../../../kjv/luke/9/10-17); [John 6:1-14](../../../kjv/john/6/1-14)).
For the exposition of this
section—one of the very few where all the four Evangelists run
parallel—see on [John 6:1-43](../../../kjv/john/6/1-43).
[John 6:1-43](../../../kjv/john/6/1-43). JESUS
CROSSES TO THE WESTERN
SIDE OF THE LAKE
WALKING ON THE
SEA—INCIDENTS
ON LANDING. ( =
[Mark 6:45](../../../kjv/mark/6/45); [John 6:15-24](../../../kjv/john/6/15-24)).
For the exposition, see on [John 6:15-43](../../../kjv/john/6/15-43).

**28. And Peter answered him and said,
Lord, if it is thou, bid me come to thee on the water**—(Also see
on .)

**29. And he said, Come. And when
Peter had come down out of the boat. he walked on the water, to go to
Jesus**—(Also see on .)

**30. But when he saw the wind
boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying,
Lord, save me**—(Also see on .)

**31. And immediately Jesus stretched
forth*****his*****hand, and caught him, and said to him,
O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt?**—(Also see on .)

**32. And when they had come into the
boat, the wind ceased**—(Also see on .)

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