Quotes About Herod

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,

When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.

Then Herod called the Magi secretly and learned from them the exact time the star had appeared.

And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.

When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”

where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.

After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.

But when he learned that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee,

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus

Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philipís wife,

On Herodís birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod

Now King Herod heard about this, for Jesusí name had become well known, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead!”

For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philipís wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.

For John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brotherís wife!”

On Herodís birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.

“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”

In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brotherís wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,

Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.

When Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, he was perplexed. For some were saying that John had risen from the dead,

“I beheaded John,” Herod said, “but who is this man I hear such things about?” And he kept trying to see Jesus.