As we come into Matthew 14 this week, we are faced with a scene of utter wickedness. We are given a flashback that tells us of the fate of John the Baptist, the promised forerunner of the Messiah. What happens to the man that Jesus called the greatest one ever born? How does his death fit in with the theme that Matthew has been developing for the last few chapters? And how does understanding a wicked king help us to understand and worship the King of Kings?
For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,because John had been saying to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
Matthew 14:3-4
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