Bible Person
Male · 23 cross references
Herod Antipas is the son of Herod the Great and the tetrarch associated with Galilee and Perea during the ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus. He is remembered for political weakness, moral compromise, and his role in the death of John. First appears in Matt 14:1.1
AI summary: Herod Antipas matters because the cross references place him at the uneasy intersection of regional politics, prophetic confrontation, and the Gospel story. He imprisons and executes John the Baptist under the pressure of his own rash pride and unlawful relationship with Herodias, and he remains curious yet superficial in his response to Jesus. Luke's Passion narrative also uses him to show how political authorities can treat holy things as spectacle rather than truth. Taken together, the material presents Herod Antipas as a ruler whose insecurity and vanity make him emblematic of compromised power in the New Testament world.1
Central Figure
Herod Antipas
Herod’s son by Malthace (Matt.
Herod’s son by Malthace (Matt. 14:1; Luke 3:1, 19; 9:7; Acts 13:1). (See ANTIPAS.) 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.