DAILY GOSPEL COMMENTARY: HEROD’S OPINION ABOUT JESUS (Lk 9:7-9).
Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was greatly perplexed because some were saying, “John has been raised from the dead”; others were saying, “Elijah has appeared”; still others, “One of the ancient prophets has arisen.” But Herod said, “John I beheaded. Who then is this about whom I hear such things?” And he kept trying to see him.
Gospel Commentary from the Navarre Bible, Commentary to the Gospel of St. Luke (with permission)
- 7-9 Except for the Sadducees, all Jews believed in the resurrection of the dead, as revealed by God in Sacred Scripture (cf. Ezek 37:10; Dan 12:2 and 2 Mac 7:9).
- It was also commonly believed by Jews at the time that Elijah or some other prophet had to appear again (cf. Deut 19:15).
- This may have been why Herod began to think that perhaps John had come back to life (Mt 14:1-2 and Mk 6:14-16), particularly since Jesus worked miracles and people thought this power was the prerogative of those who had risen from the dead.
- And yet he was aware that Christ was working miracles even before John died (cf. Jn 2:23); therefore, at first, he was disconcerted.
- Later, as the fame of Christ’s miracles spread, to have some sort of adequate explanation he decided, as the other Gospels tell us, that John must indeed have risen.
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